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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
8. 10 grams.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. Not in good physical or mental health.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
27. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
49. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
51. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
52. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
53. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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1. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
8. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
18. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
23. Jordan's port.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
43. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
44. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
45. Any of various units of capacity.
46. Towards the side away from the wind.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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