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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. An enclosed space.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
29. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Lower in esteem.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. One millionth of a gram.
51. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
52. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
53. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
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1. One of the common people.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
6. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
9. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
10. A set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. Extremely pleasing.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
38. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. A branch of the Tai languages.
42. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
44. An informal term for a father.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
49. A radioactive transuranic element.
50. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
51. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
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