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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A master's degree in business.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
52. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
53. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
54. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
55. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. In bed.
7. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
8. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
23. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
24. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
34. Extremely pleasing.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Framework for holding objects.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
43. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
48. A light touch or stroke.
51. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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