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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A floor covering.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
18. A Russian river.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
27. In bed.
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
37. (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. A periodic paperback publication.
50. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
51. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
52. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
55. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
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1. Work doggedly or persistently.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
4. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
6. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
7. Jordan's port.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. Derive or receive pleasure from.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
22. Late time of life.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
32. 1/10 gram.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
38. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. An associate degree in nursing.
42. An Asian river between China and Russia.
43. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
44. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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