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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Greenish-yellow pear.
8. Call upon in supplication.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. 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.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
21. A genus of Pyralidae.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
27. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A boy or man.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. Take in solid food.
47. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
53. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
56. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Cut the head of.
5. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
6. (prefix) Half or partial.
7. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Fallow deer.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
29. Unknown god.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
46. A slight amount or degree of difference.
48. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
49. A decree that prohibits something.
50. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
51. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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