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1. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
14. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
16. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
17. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. A fraudulent business scheme.
31. A radioactive transuranic element.
33. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
34. Before noon.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. Belonging to some prior time.
47. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
3. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
4. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
9. Jordan's port.
10. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
15. The quantity contained in a keg.
18. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
20. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
24. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
45. Enlarged prostate.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. The square of a body of any size of type.
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