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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Rounded like an egg.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
15. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
29. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
34. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. A genus of Limacidae.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
44. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
48. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
50. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. A unit of pressure.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
4. Characteristic of a mob.
5. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
6. Ground snakes.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.
30. Being one more than fifty.
31. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
32. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
33. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Being ten more than eighty.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Fallow deer.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A light touch or stroke.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
49. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
51. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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