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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
8. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. An honorary degree in science.
17. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
20. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. Not only so, but.
34. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
42. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
46. A rapid bustling commotion.
47. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
52. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
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1. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
4. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
5. (informal) Roused to anger.
6. Jordan's port.
7. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
21. Flesh of large European flatfish.
23. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. Register formally.
34. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
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