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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
11. A police officer who investigates crimes.
12. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
13. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
17. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
18. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
20. Jordan's port.
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
26. The month following January and preceding March.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Jordan's port.
33. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A light touch or stroke.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
47. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
51. A unit of pressure.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. The act of scanning.
54. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The sign language used in the United States.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. An accountant certified by the state.
7. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
8. A large fleet.
9. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
10. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
16. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
27. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
28. The cry made by sheep.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
39. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
40. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
41. Rounded like an egg.
42. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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