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1. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
4. 10 grams.
7. Catch sight of.
11. Being one more than two.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
17. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. An accountant certified by the state.
25. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
27. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. Informal terms for a mother.
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. A Russian river.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. World's longest river (4187 miles).
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
51. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
4. 1/10 gram.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
7. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
8. The act of rising upward into the air.
9. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
10. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
15. A master's degree in business.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
23. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. Call upon in supplication.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A French abbot.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
35. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
37. Greek mythology.
38. Cause to be embarrassed.
44. A boy or man.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A doctor's degree in education.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
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