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1. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. 10 grams.
11. An associate degree in applied science.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Singing jazz.
16. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
20. A light touch or stroke.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. The capital of Croatia.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
32. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. 36th President of the United States.
47. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
48. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
50. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
51. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
53. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
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1. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
9. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
10. Taken or to be taken at random.
15. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
24. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. The seed of the cereal grass.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. On the move.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A state in the eastern United States.
49. 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.
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