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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
13. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
16. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
55. A doctor's degree in education.
56. Any of various small biting flies.
57. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. (formerly) A title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
5. Suggestive of the supernatural.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
15. A French abbot.
17. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. Extremely pleasing.
40. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
41. In bed.
42. 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.
44. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
45. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
52. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
53. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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