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1. Music in three-four time for dancing a jig.
4. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
15. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
16. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
17. The capital of Croatia.
19. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
37. A state in New England.
40. 1 species.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
50. 10 grams.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
53. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
2. The content of cognition.
3. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
4. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
10. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
22. (in Scotland) A child.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A doctor's degree in religion.
33. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
36. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
41. A flexible container with a single opening.
42. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. Enlarged prostate.
45. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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