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1. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
43. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
49. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
51. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
52. A negative.
53. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. A small amount of residue.
3. Seed of a pea plant.
4. A doctor's degree in religion.
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. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
21. A light touch or stroke.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
35. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
38. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
39. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
44. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
45. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. Before noon.
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