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1. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
11. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
21. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A change for the better.
30. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
31. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
32. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
34. Being one more than one hundred.
35. Distant in either space or time.
41. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Water frozen in the solid state.
46. In bed.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
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1. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
2. An endorsement.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
10. By bad luck.
15. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
16. A book of the New Testament.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
22. The fatty flesh of eel.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
27. Being nine more than ninety.
28. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
36. A city in east central Texas.
37. On or toward the lee.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
39. The face of a timepiece.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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