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1. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
4. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
11. An associate degree in applied science.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
14. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
15. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
27. Characteristic of false pride.
29. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
34. The cry made by sheep.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. The content of cognition.
40. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
43. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
53. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
8. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
19. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
22. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
28. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
50. One million periods per second.
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