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1. Of southern Europe.
4. Young of domestic cattle.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
11. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
14. Dearly loved.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. An enclosed space.
18. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. Obvious and dull.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
31. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
54. God of love and erotic desire.
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1. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
2. Having a shell or or containing shell.
3. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. Flat tableland with steep edges.
9. Loose or flaccid body fat.
10. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
15. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
19. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Divulge information or secrets.
25. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
27. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
37. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Derive or receive pleasure from.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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