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1. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A tight-fitting headdress.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
16. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
18. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
19. Of inferior or mixed breed.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
27. Lower in esteem.
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
32. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. State in northeastern India.
38. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
47. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
48. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
53. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
54. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
9. The capital of Western Samoa.
10. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
15. An informal term for a father.
17. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. An affirmative.
26. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
36. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
37. An associate degree in applied science.
39. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
47. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
48. A state in midwestern United States.
49. 1/10 gram.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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