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1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. Towards the side away from the wind.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. The face or front of a building.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
44. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
45. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A city in the European part of Russia.
50. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
52. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
53. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
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1. Of or relating to or involving an area.
2. A genus of Ploceidae.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
5. 32nd President of the United States.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. Someone whose business is advertising.
8. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. Any system of principles or beliefs.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
25. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
28. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
39. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
41. Avatar of Vishnu.
42. A slender double-reed instrument.
43. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A resource.
48. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
51. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
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