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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A thin strip (wood or metal).
8. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
15. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
16. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
22. Tag the base runner to get him out.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
25. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
28. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
36. Before noon.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A small vessel for travel on water.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. A tight-fitting headdress.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
5. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
6. American novelist (1909-1955).
7. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
8. Anthropologist and linguist.
9. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
10. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
18. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
26. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
27. A period of time spent sleeping.
31. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. A light touch or stroke.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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