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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Extremely pleasing.
11. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
12. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
13. A strong emotion.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
31. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
33. An enclosed space.
36. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
52. A doctor's degree in education.
53. 10 grams.
54. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
55. An informal term for a father.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. A city of central China.
4. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
7. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
8. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
25. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
41. 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.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
50. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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