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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. An awkward stupid person.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
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. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Not only so, but.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
20. American inventor.
23. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
26. An enclosed space.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
31. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
7. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
19. An associate degree in nursing.
21. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A midwestern state in north central United States.
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. The face of a timepiece.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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