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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
22. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
27. Find repugnant.
30. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
31. Covered with scabs.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
41. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
47. 16 ounces.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
51. By bad luck.
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1. Avatar of Vishnu.
2. Divulge information or secrets.
3. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
4. A quantity of no importance.
5. Speaking a Slavic language.
6. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
7. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
23. Make amends for.
25. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. A Russian river.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. A French abbot.
38. The food served and eaten at one time.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
43. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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