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1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. Fallow deer.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. Wear away.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
27. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
34. Young sheep.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. The habitation of wild animals.
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
51. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
52. The chance to speak.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. A state in north central United States.
5. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
6. Type genus of the Amiidae.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
20. The basic unit of money in Iran.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. Before noon.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. A city in northern India.
38. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
42. Baby bed with high sides.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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