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1. 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.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. 10 grams.
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. The longest division of geological time.
39. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
47. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
48. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
49. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
51. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
5. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
6. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
20. How long something has existed.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
41. In bed.
42. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
46. A light touch or stroke.
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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