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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. Inquire about.
11. By bad luck.
12. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
15. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
31. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
38. 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.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. A cgs unit of work or energy.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
5. (informal) Very tired.
6. The month following March and preceding May.
7. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Singing jazz.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. Not easy.
30. A licensed medical practitioner.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
38. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. In bed.
40. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. A doctor's degree in education.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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