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1. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
13. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
15. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
16. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
17. Squash bugs.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. God of love and erotic desire.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. In bed.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
49. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
50. Type genus of the Amiidae.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
52. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. A deep bow.
4. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
10. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A bachelor's degree in religion.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A populous province in northeastern China.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
37. Fallow deer.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
45. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. Being one more than one hundred.
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