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1. Inquire about.
4. A licensed medical practitioner.
7. The handle of a weapon or tool.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. Moderate or restrain.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
17. Squash bugs.
23. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
30. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
45. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
48. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
50. Expel, as of gases and odors.
51. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
52. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. Before noon.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. The basic unit of money in Finland.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Among the largest bony fish.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
36. Anything that serves as an enticement.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
43. A light touch or stroke.
46. Being one more than fifty.
47. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. A period of time spent sleeping.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
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