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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. English monk and scholar (672-735).
11. A police officer who investigates crimes.
12. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A quantity of no importance.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. A state in northwestern North America.
22. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. Offering fun and gaiety.
29. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
54. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. Obvious and dull.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A light touch or stroke.
24. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. The second largest city in Tunisia.
42. Free from risk or danger.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
46. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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