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1. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
5. A bachelor's degree in religion.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. A primeval personification of air and breath.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
16. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
20. A light touch or stroke.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
34. Extremely pleasing.
36. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
38. A river in southeastern France.
41. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
45. Strong and sharp.
47. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
3. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
4. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
5. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
6. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
7. Before noon.
8. A Hindu prince or king in India.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. An enclosed space.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
33. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
35. United States baseball player (born 1925).
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. An awkward stupid person.
50. Informal terms for a mother.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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