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1. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
4. The cry made by sheep.
7. A bachelor's degree in library science.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
14. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
16. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
19. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
22. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
36. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
7. Grow by addition, as of capital.
8. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. A Russian river.
10. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
21. An informal term for a father.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. A light touch or stroke.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
34. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
38. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Derive or receive pleasure from.
42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. The month following July and preceding September.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. In operation or operational.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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