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1. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
13. God of love and erotic desire.
14. A police officer who investigates crimes.
16. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
21. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
26. Having short sharp turns or angles n.
27. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
39. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
42. A strong emotion.
43. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
53. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
7. Jordan's port.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. A small roofed building affording shade and rest.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. A drama set to music.
35. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
41. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
44. A tight-fitting headdress.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
50. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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