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1. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
4. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
18. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
22. A state in northwestern North America.
23. Irritate or vex.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
43. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
44. The habitation of wild animals.
47. Before noon.
48. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
51. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
2. Come to pass.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. Singing jazz.
7. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
15. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
17. The act of scanning.
20. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
25. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
28. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
32. (trademark) An antacid.
34. The capital of Croatia.
37. Jordan's port.
38. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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