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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. A master's degree in library science.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. How long something has existed.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A light touch or stroke.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A telegram sent abroad.
36. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
47. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. A notable achievement.
51. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
7. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
8. The month following March and preceding May.
9. A Russian river.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
24. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
26. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A state in New England.
34. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
35. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
37. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
38. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. A quantity of no importance.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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