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1. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
4. A city in northern India.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. Loose or flaccid body fat.
16. A master's degree in fine arts.
17. The residue that remains when something is burned.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
27. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
36. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
48. The fatty flesh of eel.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Occupied or in the control of.
3. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
6. The airforce of Great Britain.
7. Jordan's port.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Divulge information or secrets.
20. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
22. A large fleet.
23. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. 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.
32. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
34. Type genus of the Gavidae.
35. Lower in esteem.
37. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
38. A telephone connection.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
46. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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