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1. An operating system that is on a disk.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. The act of scanning.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
27. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. The face or front of a building.
39. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. A period of 10 years.
43. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
50. Dwell (archaic).
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. The sixth month of the civil year.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A deep bow.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
6. Divulge information or secrets.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
10. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
18. A state in New England.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A radioactive transuranic element.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
42. A town in north central Oklahoma.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. The food served and eaten at one time.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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