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1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
4. An enclosed space.
7. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
13. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
16. Unpleasantly stern.
17. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
19. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
22. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
25. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
29. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
34. By bad luck.
37. Jordan's port.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. Extremely pleasing.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Type genus of the Nepidae.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
9. In or of the present month.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. 10 grams.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
21. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
38. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
49. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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