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1. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
16. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
17. Minor or subordinate.
18. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
19. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
33. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
36. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
37. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. Take in solid food.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. A French abbot.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
53. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
54. Extremely pleasing.
55. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
56. An informal term for a father.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Any competition.
3. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
4. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
5. The products of human creativity.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
20. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
22. 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.
24. With no effort to conceal.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. The month following January and preceding March.
35. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
41. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
42. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
43. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
44. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
46. The bill in a restaurant.
48. A human limb.
50. The cry made by sheep.
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