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1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. Highly excited.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. A young woman making her debut into society.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
20. The sound made by corvine birds.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
48. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
49. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
50. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
53. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
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1. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
8. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A master's degree in business.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
38. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
42. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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