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1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. In bed.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. An associate degree in nursing.
21. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
25. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
27. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
41. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. An elaborate song for solo voice.
46. A city in the European part of Russia.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
49. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
50. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
51. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
4. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. Chief port of Yemen.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
26. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. Beside one another in a row or rank.
39. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
40. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
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