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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
14. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
15. Cry plaintively.
16. A flexible container with a single opening.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
21. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. By bad luck.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
34. Before noon.
35. Divulge information or secrets.
39. A small vessel for travel on water.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
43. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. A rapid bustling commotion.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
51. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
52. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. A French abbot.
5. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
8. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
10. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
18. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
20. An informal term for a father.
22. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
37. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. (British) Your grandmother.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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