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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Before noon.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. A state in northwestern North America.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A radioactive transuranic element.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
36. Away from the mouth or oral region.
39. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
43. Suggestive of the supernatural.
46. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
56. In bed.
57. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
5. A motley assortment of things.
6. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
7. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
22. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. 32nd President of the United States.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A bachelor's degree in religion.
35. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. The cry made by sheep.
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. Type genus of the Ranidae.
45. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
47. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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