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1. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
4. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. Type genus of the Ranidae.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
15. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A resource.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. 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.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. (informal) Exceptionally good.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
51. A Loloish language.
52. Having leadership guidance.
53. A light touch or stroke.
54. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
3. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
4. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
5. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
8. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Not out.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Avatar of Vishnu.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
44. In bed.
45. A quantity of no importance.
47. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
48. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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