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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. (Irish) The sea personified.
12. The basic unit of money in Iran.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. A desert in southern Israel.
20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. A master's degree in business.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
36. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
37. Jordan's port.
41. An informal term for a father.
45. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
46. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. A Hindu prince or king in India.
51. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
52. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
53. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
54. An associate degree in applied science.
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
56. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
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1. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
2. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A worthless message.
5. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
6. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. 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.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
39. By bad luck.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. Not out.
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
43. Slightly open.
44. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
50. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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