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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
16. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
21. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. A city in east central Texas.
34. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
38. An associate degree in nursing.
41. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
42. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
46. Informal terms for the mouth.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A strong emotion.
50. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
52. A port in southwestern Scotland.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. The highest level or degree attainable.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. 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.
9. Lie adjacent to another.
10. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. The sound made by corvine birds.
25. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
27. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
28. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
32. Before noon.
33. Marked by blithe unconcern.
35. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
36. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
37. A person who hews.
39. Type genus of the Nepidae.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. The bill in a restaurant.
45. How long something has existed.
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