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1. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
5. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
53. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. Divulge information or secrets.
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1. Praise, glorify, or honor.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
4. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
5. An accountant certified by the state.
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Extremely pleasing.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. A resource.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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