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1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
4. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
8. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. Made of fir or pine.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. 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.
16. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
17. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
18. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
21. Type genus of the Majidae.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A native of ancient Troy.
29. An informal conversation.
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
35. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
37. The cry made by sheep.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Elegant and stylish.
51. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
3. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
5. Of or like a cecum.
6. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
7. A master's degree in library science.
8. Offering fun and gaiety.
9. Speaking a Slavic language.
10. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
22. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
24. Produced by a manufacturing process.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. Extremely pleasing.
31. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A Russian river.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
41. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. An informal term for a father.
46. (Irish) The sea personified.
47. Water frozen in the solid state.
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