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1. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
11. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
12. The cry made by sheep.
13. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
14. The twelfth month of the civil year.
16. Any of various units of capacity.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
34. A flexible container with a single opening.
35. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
37. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
38. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. 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.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. An informal term for a father.
53. The fatty flesh of eel.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
56. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
17. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
33. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
36. Type genus of the Percidae.
39. A French abbot.
41. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
42. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
43. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
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. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
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