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1. Express or utter with a hiss.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. A company emblem or device.
11. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
12. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. Distant in either space or time.
15. 10 grams.
16. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. 1/10 gram.
22. Extremely pleasing.
24. A master's degree in business.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
36. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. A Loloish language.
53. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
54. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
55. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. The chance to speak.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. By bad luck.
7. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
32. An uproarious party.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A quantity of no importance.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
49. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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