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1. Divulge information or secrets.
5. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. 1 species.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. The cry made by sheep.
46. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
47. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
49. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. An associate degree in applied science.
53. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
54. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
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1. A small nail.
2. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
3. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
4. Obvious and dull.
5. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Before noon.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Being five more than one hundred.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
36. A city in northern India.
37. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
45. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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