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1. The second day of the week.
4. Loose or flaccid body fat.
8. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
17. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
21. A light touch or stroke.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
25. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
35. A person forced to flee from home or country.
36. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
39. Suggestive of the supernatural.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
47. In bed.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A state in the western United States.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
5. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. A city in east central Texas.
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.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
22. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
31. Read anew.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
44. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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