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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. A Loloish language.
8. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
15. Fallow deer.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
50. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
53. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. Unknown god.
35. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
46. Informal terms for a difficult situation.
47. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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