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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
13. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. Before noon.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. A light touch or stroke.
25. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
28. Jordan's port.
31. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
32. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. Lower in esteem.
47. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
52. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Having three dimensions.
6. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Fallow deer.
10. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
16. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
35. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. Jordan's port.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
48. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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