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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
8. Inquire about.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. A decree that prohibits something.
14. Type genus of the Corixidae.
15. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
16. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
17. How long something has existed.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
34. Before noon.
35. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
37. A soft silvery metallic element.
40. A small vessel for travel on water.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. Type genus of the Amiidae.
48. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Highly excited.
3. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
4. A city of southeastern Mexico.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. An expression of greeting.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
10. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
19. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. To a severe or serious degree.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
40. A doctor's degree in religion.
41. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
42. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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