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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).
8. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. In bed.
16. (informal) Roused to anger.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
34. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
39. 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.
43. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
44. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. Water frozen in the solid state.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. Top part of an apron.
51. (British) Your grandmother.
52. Type genus of the Ranidae.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
5. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
8. A large fleet.
9. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
20. Derived from or containing calcium or lime.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
36. Being of the age 13 through 19.
37. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
40. A French abbot.
41. Anything that serves as an enticement.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
46. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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