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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
7. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. An accountant certified by the state.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. A police officer who investigates crimes.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
24. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. English monk and scholar (672-735).
30. Material used to daub walls.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
32. The content of cognition.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
43. A sudden abrupt pull.
44. A sudden short attack.
47. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
48. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
49. Very dark black.
50. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
51. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
52. Largest known toad species.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
4. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
8. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. Avatar of Vishnu.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. 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).
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
34. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
38. 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.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A city in northern India.
45. An informal debt instrument.
46. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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