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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A branch of the Tai languages.
8. A flexible container with a single opening.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
17. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
39. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
42. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A strong emotion.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
51. In bed.
52. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
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1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
2. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
3. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
4. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
9. By bad luck.
10. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
18. A master's degree in business.
20. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
32. Common Indian weaverbird.
33. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
36. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
37. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
40. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
41. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
43. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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