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1. An associate degree in applied science.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. Any of various units of capacity.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
15. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. Covered with paving material.
38. A Hindu prince or king in India.
42. Step on it.
43. An artificial source of visible illumination.
46. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. In bed.
49. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
52. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. A deep bow.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
10. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. State in northeastern India.
22. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
33. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
36. By bad luck.
37. 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.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
44. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
45. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
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