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1. The unit of frequency.
4. A thrusting blow with a knife.
8. Inquire about.
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. A genus of Mustelidae.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A master's degree in business.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
27. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Jordan's port.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
41. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
51. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. East Indian annual erect herb.
5. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. Knock unconscious or senseless.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
22. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A light touch or stroke.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
32. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
36. On the move.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
40. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
41. Being nine more than ninety.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
47. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Before noon.
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