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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Material used to daub walls.
8. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
13. An associate degree in applied science.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
16. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
17. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
21. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. Lose blood from one's body.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
32. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. Characteristic of false pride.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. Very dark black.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. A narrow way or road.
52. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
4. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
5. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
6. A transuranic element.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
10. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
18. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
20. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
22. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A worthless message.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Set down according to a plan.
38. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
39. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. An electrically charged particle.
45. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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