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1. One thousandth of a second.
5. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. An awkward stupid person.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
30. God of wealth and love.
34. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. 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.
39. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
41. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. Being two more than fifty.
45. Divulge information or secrets.
46. An enclosed space.
47. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
50. A unit of pressure.
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1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. Take in solid food.
4. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
5. (informal) Exceptionally good.
6. Type genus of the Ranidae.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
18. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
20. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
26. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
29. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
30. Take in solid food.
31. Lower in esteem.
32. True firs.
33. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
36. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
38. A city in northwestern Syria.
40. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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