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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
5. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. A master's degree in business.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Extremely pleasing.
51. Using speech rather than writing.
52. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
53. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
2. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
3. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
4. Jordan's port.
5. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A New England state.
22. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
23. An enclosed space.
25. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A decree that prohibits something.
38. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. A French abbot.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
44. In bed.
45. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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