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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
7. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. The highest level or degree attainable.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
25. A lyric poet.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. 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.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
49. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
50. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
51. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. A drama set to music.
5. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
9. Avatar of Vishnu.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
19. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A form of address for a man.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
29. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
31. Fiddler crabs.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
34. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
35. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
37. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
44. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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