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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
11. The sixth month of the civil year.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
15. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
16. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
17. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
19. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
20. Being one more than fifty.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. The capital of Croatia.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
32. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
40. By bad luck.
42. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. (botany) Especially of leaves.
2. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A large fleet.
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. God of wealth and love.
7. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. Notably out of the ordinary.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. An Eskimo hut.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. An associate degree in applied science.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
36. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
41. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
42. (informal) Roused to anger.
43. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
44. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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