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1. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
4. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
8. An associate degree in applied science.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. On or toward the lee.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. A choice or delicious dish.
17. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
20. Covered with beads of liquid.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
50. God of the earth.
51. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
52. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
7. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
28. Being one more than one.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
32. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
33. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
38. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
40. In bed.
41. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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