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1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
4. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
13. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
14. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
16. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
27. 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).
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
47. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
48. Very dark black.
49. A master's degree in business.
50. Wild and domestic cattle.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
4. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
7. (anatomy) Being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body.
8. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. An informal term for a father.
26. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
31. Having a claw or claws.
32. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
34. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
35. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
38. A rounded projection or protuberance.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. An associate degree in applied science.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
46. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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