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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Stalk of a moss capsule.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
24. A light touch or stroke.
26. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. With no effort to conceal.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. God of love and erotic desire.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
49. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
50. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
51. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
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1. Occurring widely (as to many people).
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. A human limb.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
39. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. Enlarged prostate.
47. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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