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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. Not only so, but.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. In the Roman calendar.
27. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
43. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
47. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. Black tropical American cuckoo.
53. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
54. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
55. An enclosed space.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Tropical Asian starlings.
2. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
3. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. The last (12th) month of the year.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
23. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
25. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. The cry made by sheep.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. The last (12th) month of the year.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
41. Of or relating to near the ear.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A sudden short attack.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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