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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Occurring widely (as to many people).
8. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A unit of pressure.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
33. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
38. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
40. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
49. A local computer network for communication between computers.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
55. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
3. Fallow deer.
4. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. A resource.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
8. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. Extremely pleasing.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A drama set to music.
35. A master's degree in fine arts.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. 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.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. A town in north central Oklahoma.
45. A light touch or stroke.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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