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1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. An account describing incidents or events.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. The act of scanning.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A comedian who uses gags.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
32. How long something has existed.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
43. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
51. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
52. In bed.
53. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
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1. A large number or amount.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A three-year law degree.
4. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
7. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. By bad luck.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. Before noon.
35. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
37. A Hindu prince or king in India.
38. (prefix) Within.
39. A French abbot.
40. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
41. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
42. Of or being the lowest female voice.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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