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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A tight-fitting headdress.
13. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
14. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
21. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
28. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. A young woman making her debut into society.
37. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. The airforce of Great Britain.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
50. A Loloish language.
53. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A master's degree in business.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A boy or man.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
5. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. Having been read.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
22. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
38. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
39. South African term for `boss'.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
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