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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
17. An associate degree in applied science.
19. Before noon.
23. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. Largest known toad species.
29. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
37. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
39. Tag the base runner to get him out.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Of uncertain outcome.
44. Any of various units of capacity.
46. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
48. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
49. God of the earth.
50. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. South African term for `boss'.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. In bed.
7. A Mid-Atlantic state.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
16. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. The act of scanning.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task.
32. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
36. A French abbot.
37. An associate degree in applied science.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. 16 ounces.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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