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1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
4. A licensed medical practitioner.
7. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
14. The fatty flesh of eel.
15. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
16. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
17. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
21. A bachelor's degree in religion.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. A large number or amount.
43. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. A slender double-reed instrument.
48. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
50. A Loloish language.
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
52. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
53. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
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1. One of the common people.
2. Turn sharply.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
8. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
9. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
10. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
18. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
22. The act of scanning.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
35. Jordan's port.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
41. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
42. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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