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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Tag the base runner to get him out.
7. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
11. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
13. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
14. An honorary arts degree.
17. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
18. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
20. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Jordan's port.
27. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
31. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. An audiotape recording of sound.
49. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
50. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. Take in solid food.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. The face of a timepiece.
2. A city in northern India.
3. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. A quantity of no importance.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
7. A state of southwestern India.
8. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. Unknown god.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Make an etching of.
46. An honorary degree in science.
47. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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