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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. An enclosed space.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
16. A woman religious.
17. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The sixth month of the civil year.
28. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
29. Offering fun and gaiety.
30. By bad luck.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
47. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
51. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
52. A light touch or stroke.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A doctor's degree in religion.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Type genus of the Majidae.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
10. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. 1/10 gram.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
26. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
33. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
35. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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