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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
19. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A genus of Pyralidae.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
43. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
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. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
7. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
8. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Fallow deer.
24. 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.
26. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
37. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
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