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1. God of the earth.
4. The sign language used in the United States.
7. A French abbot.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
14. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
26. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
29. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
54. The face of a timepiece.
55. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
23. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. A bachelor's degree in religion.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. Extremely pleasing.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. A sudden short attack.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
52. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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