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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A covering to disguise or conceal the face.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Minor or subordinate.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. A flexible container with a single opening.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
52. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
53. 10 grams.
54. Humble request for help.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. A fraudulent business scheme.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
22. Term of address for a man.
23. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. An associate degree in applied science.
28. Being one more than fifty.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
35. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
46. A humorous anecdote or remark.
47. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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