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1. A French abbot.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. How long something has existed.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
15. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. The fatty flesh of eel.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. One thousand periods per second.
34. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
48. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. The month following February and preceding April.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
53. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. 10 grams.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
21. The last (12th) month of the year.
22. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
23. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. In bed.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
45. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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