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1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
15. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. By bad luck.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Humorously vulgar.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
33. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. In bed.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
48. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
3. A Loloish language.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
5. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
22. Being nine more than forty.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
28. A light touch or stroke.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
37. Any plant of the genus Erica.
38. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A shape that sags.
47. A person's brother or sister.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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