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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. A feeling of intense anger.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. The sign language used in the United States.
17. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
30. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
41. 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.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
51. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
52. A cgs unit of work or energy.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
55. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
2. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
20. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A young woman making her debut into society.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. In bed.
43. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
44. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
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