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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
11. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
12. Tropical Asian starlings.
13. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Cause to feel resentment or indignation.
24. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
28. (Babylonian) The sky god.
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
31. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
33. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A light touch or stroke.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Before noon.
5. Too numerous to be counted.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
9. A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A master's degree in fine arts.
21. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. English monk and scholar (672-735).
33. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
43. An informal term for a father.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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