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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
17. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
27. Large Indian antelope.
29. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. An associate degree in nursing.
43. A Pacific island north of Australia.
47. Tag the base runner to get him out.
49. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
50. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
51. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
52. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
53. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
5. The airforce of Great Britain.
6. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
7. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
10. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
23. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
24. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
34. Obvious and dull.
35. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
45. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
46. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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