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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
13. A resource.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. An associate degree in nursing.
21. Minor or subordinate.
22. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. By bad luck.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
30. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. Before noon.
35. The vein in the center of a leaf.
38. A small vessel for travel on water.
41. Highly excited.
42. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. Give a nickname to.
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A farm where dairy products are produced.
5. The highest level or degree attainable.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. A large fleet.
8. Extremely pleasing.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
29. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. A republic in central Europe.
36. An Eskimo hut.
37. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
39. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. 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.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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