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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
7. (informal) Fortitude and determination.
11. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. One thousandth of a second.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
16. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
17. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
33. A small piece of cloth.
34. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
38. One of the three Furies.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
50. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
52. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
53. Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
3. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
6. A light touch or stroke.
7. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
8. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
9. A three-tone Chadic language.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. 1/10 gram.
31. White goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures.
35. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
40. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
44. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
45. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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