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1. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
4. Highly excited.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
11. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A young woman making her debut into society.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
30. A master's degree in business.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
45. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
52. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
21. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
35. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
38. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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