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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
5. Any of various units of capacity.
8. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
11. Largest known toad species.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
14. A master's degree in library science.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
45. The capital of Western Samoa.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. The activity of persuading someone to buy.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
55. Either extremity of something that has length.
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1. Willing to face danger.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Divulge information or secrets.
7. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
8. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
22. 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.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
37. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
43. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
44. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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