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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. Toward the mouth or oral region.
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
15. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
16. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
20. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
23. The compass point midway between west and northwest.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. The cry made by sheep.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
52. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
53. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Wearing footgear.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
7. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
8. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
19. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. The basic unit of money in Panama.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. Offering safety.
43. Fallow deer.
45. An enclosed space.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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