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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. Not only so, but.
14. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
27. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
29. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Slow to learn or understand.
37. An accountant certified by the state.
39. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
43. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
51. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
52. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
53. In bed.
54. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
55. The residue that remains when something is burned.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Obvious and dull.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
7. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
8. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
26. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. The square of a body of any size of type.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
46. The highest level or degree attainable.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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