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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. (Irish) The sea personified.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
15. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
20. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. A light touch or stroke.
31. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
40. An athlete who plays basketball.
43. A genus of Platalea.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
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1. An embarrassing mistake.
2. Stalk of a moss capsule.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
6. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
7. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
19. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
22. English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964).
24. One millionth of a gram.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
33. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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