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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Material used to daub walls.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. The square of a body of any size of type.
21. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
23. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
25. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. British informal term.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. A doctor's degree in optometry.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
53. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
54. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
4. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
5. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
6. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
10. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
15. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
16. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. That is to say.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. Being six more than fifty.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. Noisy talk.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
46. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
49. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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