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1. An accidental happening.
4. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
8. Inquire about.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A city in northern India.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
20. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. The cry made by sheep.
32. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
49. A master's degree in business.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
51. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
52. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
7. An awkward stupid person.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
24. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. Seed of a pea plant.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
34. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. South African term for `boss'.
42. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
44. An accountant certified by the state.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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