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1. (British) Your grandmother.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. An audiotape recording of sound.
11. One or some or every or all without specification.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. A decree that prohibits something.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. A master's degree in fine arts.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
49. A human limb.
51. Chief port of Yemen.
54. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
55. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. Again but in a new or different way.
3. City in Sudan.
4. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A bottle with a stopper.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. An informal term for a father.
9. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
19. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
21. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
25. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. Half the width of an em.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
52. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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