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1. Make amends for.
4. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
12. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
19. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
35. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
43. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. A light touch or stroke.
54. The act of scanning.
55. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
3. Not only so, but.
4. A caress with the lips.
5. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
6. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
36. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
38. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
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