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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
11. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
14. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
15. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
27. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
34. A light touch or stroke.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
47. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
51. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
55. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Mother goddess.
7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Tag the base runner to get him out.
24. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
48. The last (12th) month of the year.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
50. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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