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1. A visual presentation showing how something works.
5. A radioactive transuranic element.
7. On, to, or at the top.
11. By bad luck.
12. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
13. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
14. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
16. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. Half the width of an em.
19. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
27. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. In bed.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
5. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
6. Extremely pleasing.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
20. A city in northern India.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. A decree that prohibits something.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. God of love and erotic desire.
40. Fallow deer.
41. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
45. Top part of an apron.
46. A light touch or stroke.
49. Informal terms for a mother.
50. Unknown god.
51. 16 ounces.
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