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1. The month following September and preceding November.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. A rapid bustling commotion.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
15. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
27. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Being one more than one hundred.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. An associate degree in applied science.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
46. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
47. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. A boy or man.
50. A French abbot.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. To an excessive degree.
4. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
5. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
23. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
24. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
30. 35th President of the United States.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
42. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
43. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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