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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
5. A bachelor's degree in theology.
8. Inquire about.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. Take in solid food.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A large fleet.
23. Late time of life.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
38. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
40. A bachelor's degree in science.
42. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
43. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
46. (British) Your grandmother.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. (informal) Roused to anger.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. English essayist (1775-1834).
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1. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
2. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
3. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Jordan's port.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
7. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
20. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
22. Characteristic of a mob.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. An informal term for a father.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. Obvious and dull.
36. A genus of Indriidae.
37. Wife of Balder.
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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