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1. The site of an archeological exploration.
4. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
8. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. A tight-fitting headdress.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. Very dark black.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
18. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
19. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
21. Extremely pleasing.
22. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. Regional and archaic.
25. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A soft silvery metallic element.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
36. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
41. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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