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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. How long something has existed.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A very light brown.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
27. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. Top part of an apron.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
49. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
51. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
52. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
54. An informal term for a father.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
7. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. An informal term for a father.
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. 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.
28. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
42. Common Indian weaverbird.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. Take in solid food.
47. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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