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1. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
12. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
29. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A doctor's degree in religion.
41. 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.
45. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
48. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
2. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
3. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
7. A doctor's degree in education.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Jordan's port.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
38. Lower in esteem.
39. A doctor's degree in education.
40. Two items of the same kind.
42. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Material used to daub walls.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
49. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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