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1. A master's degree in business.
4. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. 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).
12. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
13. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
14. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
15. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. A light touch or stroke.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
38. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
50. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
51. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
52. On or toward the lee.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
54. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Squash bugs.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Informal terms for a mother.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
33. A decree that prohibits something.
35. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
39. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. The month following March and preceding May.
48. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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