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1. A resource.
4. In bed.
8. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
11. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
12. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. (Irish) The sea personified.
15. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
19. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A Mid-Atlantic state.
23. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
24. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. The face or front of a building.
30. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
45. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
50. A French abbot.
51. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
4. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
7. Russian country house.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
25. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
33. Sour or bitter in taste.
34. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
35. Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food v 1.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Largest known toad species.
40. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. God of the earth.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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