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1. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
11. Take in solid food.
12. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Having a tendency to cause harm.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
25. Resembling the new moon in shape.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
34. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Not out.
42. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
48. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
51. A major god.
52. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Flat tableland with steep edges.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Indicating the most important performer or role.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. A human limb.
6. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
7. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
8. American novelist (1909-1955).
9. The act of scanning.
10. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
15. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
20. An informal conversation.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
26. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
32. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
33. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
35. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
36. Greek mythology.
39. A Loloish language.
43. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
45. The airforce of Great Britain.
46. An associate degree in nursing.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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