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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
8. Inquire about.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Covered with paving material.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
26. The capital of Croatia.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. A light touch or stroke.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. A state in northwestern North America.
40. A state in midwestern United States.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
48. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
51. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
52. English monk and scholar (672-735).
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1. Cry plaintively.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
5. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
6. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
7. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
21. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. 1/10 gram.
32. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
35. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A rounded projection or protuberance.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Minor or subordinate.
46. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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