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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A fraudulent business scheme.
23. The airforce of Great Britain.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
31. The capital of Croatia.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. The state that precedes vomiting.
42. Disparaging terms for the common people.
45. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
46. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
49. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
52. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
7. A genus of European owls.
8. A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
9. Jordan's port.
10. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
16. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
19. A large strong and aggressive woman.
21. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. An Eskimo hut.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
33. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A genus of Mustelidae.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. Inquire about.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Before noon.
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