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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
11. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Before noon.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
24. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
37. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A state in New England.
46. The seed of the cereal grass.
47. Very dark black.
50. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
51. Advanced in years.
52. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. God of love and erotic desire.
3. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
9. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
10. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
18. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
20. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.
38. The British system of withholding tax.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
44. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
48. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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