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1. Take in solid food.
4. In bed.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. A unit of pressure.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
25. Make amends for.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Unwisely talking too much.
32. An informal conversation.
34. Baby bed with high sides.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
37. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
39. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
46. Type genus of the Gavidae.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. The site of an archeological exploration.
50. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
52. Derive or receive pleasure from.
53. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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1. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
2. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
3. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
6. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
7. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A bottle with a stopper.
21. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
24. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
31. A soft silvery metallic element.
33. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. That is to say.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. Rounded like an egg.
42. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
43. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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