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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
8. The seventh and last day of the week.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A doctor's degree in education.
17. Tag the base runner to get him out.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
20. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
29. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Being two more than fifty.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
51. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
52. The fatty flesh of eel.
53. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
54. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. The quantity a cask will hold.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. Being one more than two.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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