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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
8. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. (of eggs) No longer edible.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. Tag the base runner to get him out.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A flexible container with a single opening.
38. 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).
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. By bad luck.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
54. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
55. A branch of the Tai languages.
57. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
58. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
59. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. The quantity a cask will hold.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
5. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
9. American novelist (1909-1955).
10. An informal term for a father.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. A light touch or stroke.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
37. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
41. Squash bugs.
42. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
45. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
53. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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