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1. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. Pan with a convex bottom.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
14. (British slang) Cafe.
16. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
18. An associate degree in nursing.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
20. 1/10 gram.
21. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. Type genus of the Amiidae.
27. An awkward stupid person.
28. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
30. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
32. The capital of Croatia.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
44. Extremely pleasing.
47. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
48. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
52. God of fire.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. An Asian river between China and Russia.
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1. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
2. A domain in which something is dominant.
3. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
4. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
5. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
6. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
9. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
10. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
17. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. A blind god.
24. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. Tag the base runner to get him out.
33. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
37. 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.
38. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
45. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
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