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1. Someone whose job is to dye cloth.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
11. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
15. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
16. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
18. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
20. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
33. Fiddler crabs.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. South African term for `boss'.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
53. Irritate or vex.
54. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. A sharply directional antenna.
3. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
4. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
7. By bad luck.
8. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
9. Using speech rather than writing.
10. Something causes misery or death.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. An informal conversation.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
28. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. A white trivalent metallic element.
30. Unknown god.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
39. Noisy talk.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. God of fire.
43. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
44. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
46. A flexible container with a single opening.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A master's degree in business.
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