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1. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
4. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
8. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Informal terms for the mouth.
15. An edible tuber native to South America.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. A state in northwestern North America.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A polite name for any woman.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. Not reflecting light.
48. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. Serving as or forming a base.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
5. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
6. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. A light touch or stroke.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
32. A port in southwestern Scotland.
33. The month following January and preceding March.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
37. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
38. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. That is to say.
44. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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