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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
11. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
12. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
13. A river in western Asia.
14. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
19. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
21. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
39. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
48. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
49. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. An atom having a valence of one.
3. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
4. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
8. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat v 1.
9. Any plant of the genus Erica.
10. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
15. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
26. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
28. (trademark) An antacid.
33. The fatty flesh of eel.
35. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
36. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
41. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. Extremely pleasing.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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