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1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
13. Type genus of the Anatidae.
14. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
21. A state in New England.
22. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. An informal term for a father.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
35. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
38. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. An informal term for a father.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
4. Jordan's port.
5. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
10. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
24. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A drama set to music.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
43. God of love and erotic desire.
44. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
46. A light touch or stroke.
47. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
48. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
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