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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The capital of Western Samoa.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
11. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
17. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
30. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
32. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
33. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
38. The wife of a sheik.
42. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
47. A human limb.
48. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. How long something has existed.
51. In bed.
54. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
55. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
56. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A proportion multiplied by 100.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A person forced to flee from home or country.
29. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
31. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
34. A radioactive transuranic element.
36. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
43. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
44. One thousandth of a second.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
52. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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