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1. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
4. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
7. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
11. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
12. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
15. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
20. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A doctor's degree in religion.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. In bed.
40. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
42. An associate degree in nursing.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
53. At or constituting a border or edge.
54. The residue that remains when something is burned.
55. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. Able to act at will.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
5. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
6. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
16. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
21. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
23. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
26. 1/10 gram.
29. A light touch or stroke.
31. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A telegram sent abroad.
37. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
38. Any plant of the genus Erica.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. The month following July and preceding September.
48. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
49. A person's brother or sister.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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