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1. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. An association of criminals.
11. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
12. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
13. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
14. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
16. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
20. A light touch or stroke.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A radioactive transuranic element.
27. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
36. Before noon.
38. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
39. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A decree that prohibits something.
49. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Enthusiastic approval.
3. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
4. A state of southwestern India.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
9. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
15. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. An associate degree in nursing.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. Jordan's port.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. God of death.
41. Noisy talk.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. An honorary degree in science.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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