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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
19. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
22. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
23. Jordan's port.
25. Lower in esteem.
29. 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.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. A master's degree in business.
35. Common Indian weaverbird.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
53. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
6. 16 ounces.
7. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
8. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
9. A short theatrical episode.
10. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
17. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. Unknown god.
26. Before noon.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A city in northern India.
37. Noisy talk.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. In bed.
42. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. A local computer network for communication between computers.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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