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1. Male red deer.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
11. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. Lower in esteem.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
23. Made of fir or pine.
24. 36th President of the United States.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. An informal term for a father.
32. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
36. A light touch or stroke.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. An informal conversation.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
52. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
53. A polite name for any woman.
54. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
7. By bad luck.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
15. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
17. A notable achievement.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
29. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
40. An informal term for a father.
41. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
42. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
48. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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