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1. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
4. A flexible container with a single opening.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
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. The month following March and preceding May.
13. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
14. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A proportion multiplied by 100.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
49. The month following April and preceding June.
50. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. An enclosed space.
54. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
55. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. At surface level.
7. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
8. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
24. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
27. Unknown god.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
33. Enlarged prostate.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. Type genus of the Amiidae.
42. South African term for `boss'.
43. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
48. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. Being nine more than forty.
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