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1. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
4. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
16. The month following July and preceding September.
17. A master's degree in business.
18. Noisy quarrel.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. Highly excited.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
41. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A castrated tomcat.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. The habitation of wild animals.
3. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. By bad luck.
6. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
7. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A Russian river.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
35. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
42. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
43. Characteristic of false pride.
44. A French abbot.
46. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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