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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. Standard temperature and pressure.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. A pass between mountain peaks.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A Mid-Atlantic state.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
39. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. How long something has existed.
46. Fiddler crabs.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. A boy or man.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
55. The face of a timepiece.
56. 16 ounces.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
6. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
10. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A three-year law degree.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
34. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
36. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
37. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. The act of scanning.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
48. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. A doctor's degree in religion.
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