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1. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. The sign language used in the United States.
11. Armor plate that protects the chest.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. (Jewish) Roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet.
21. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
24. Sour or bitter in taste.
27. An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms.
31. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
33. A vigorous blow.
34. Minor or subordinate.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
39. The residue that remains when something is burned.
41. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. An informal term for a father.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. God of fire.
3. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
4. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
5. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A state of southwestern India.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
22. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
23. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
30. A state in New England.
32. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
37. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
38. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
43. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
46. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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