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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. 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.
8. Extremely pleasing.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
13. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
14. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
24. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
26. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
28. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
34. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
48. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
53. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
54. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
55. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
56. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
57. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. A son who has the same first name as his father.
4. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
7. God of the earth.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. A republic in central Europe.
23. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. God of death.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
44. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
45. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
50. An audiotape recording of sound.
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