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1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
5. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. Covered with paving material.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. The cry made by sheep.
29. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
30. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. A master's degree in library science.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Best of its kind on record.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A state in northwestern North America.
44. 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.
45. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
50. A Hindu prince or king in India.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. The capital of Morocco.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. The basic unit of money in Albania.
34. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
37. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
38. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
39. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. The basic unit of money in China.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
47. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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