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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. A Loloish language.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
16. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
26. Divulge information or secrets.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
34. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
47. A human limb.
51. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. (Sumerian) Sun god.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. The act of scanning.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. In bed.
5. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. Fallow deer.
10. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. Unknown god.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
35. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
46. Tag the base runner to get him out.
48. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
49. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
50. A partially opened flower.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
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