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1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
8. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
11. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
12. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
16. A small piece of cloth.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
23. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
28. The cry made by sheep.
29. Extremely pleasing.
30. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. One of the three Furies.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
47. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
49. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
50. (British) Your grandmother.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
2. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
9. Jordan's port.
10. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
20. An informal term for a father.
24. An informal term for a father.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
36. Very dark black.
37. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A small piece of cloth.
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
41. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. A light touch or stroke.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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