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1. God of the earth.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
14. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. In bed.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
38. A Russian river.
40. A person forced to flee from home or country.
42. Of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage.
43. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
46. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
47. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
49. Rate of revolution of a motor.
50. A boy or man.
51. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
52. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
53. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Tag the base runner to get him out.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
9. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
10. An informal term for a father.
18. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
20. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
25. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. Remote and separate physically or socially.
36. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
37. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
39. English monk and scholar (672-735).
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. Having leadership guidance.
45. An enclosed space.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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