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1. A shape that sags.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
12. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
16. Seed of a pea plant.
17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
42. 16 ounces.
46. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
51. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
54. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
57. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
58. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. (Babylonian) God of fire.
4. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
5. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
6. Towards the side away from the wind.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. An accountant certified by the state.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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