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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Inquire about.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A lyric poet.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Not only so, but.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
22. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
25. The capital of Croatia.
26. (South African) An ear of corn.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
35. Offering fun and gaiety.
37. Filled with fear or apprehension.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. 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.
43. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
44. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
46. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. Again but in a new or different way.
3. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
32. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
33. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A French abbot.
38. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
41. A unit of pressure.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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