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1. The unit of frequency.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A French abbot.
13. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
14. A master's degree in business.
15. Related to or located at the back.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
22. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
25. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
28. A radioactive transuranic element.
29. Of or relating to Fabianism.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
38. 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.
42. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. A cgs unit of work or energy.
50. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
51. Fiddler crabs.
52. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. The basic unit of money in Albania.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. Not in action or at work.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
19. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
20. A light touch or stroke.
23. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
24. A city in east central Texas.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
36. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. In bed.
40. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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