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1. Type genus of the Majidae.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. Inquire about.
11. Not only so, but.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. In the Roman calendar.
27. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. A neutral middle vowel.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Intrude in other people's affairs or business.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. A form of address for a man.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A city in northwestern Syria.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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1. Tropical Asian starlings.
2. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
3. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A licensed medical practitioner.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
22. A notable achievement.
23. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
25. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
35. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Before noon.
39. A Loloish language.
40. Made of fir or pine.
41. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
46. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
50. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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