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1. Outer bark of the cork oak.
5. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
7. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
11. On or toward the lee.
12. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. Divulge information or secrets.
15. A public promotion of some product or service.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. By bad luck.
32. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
49. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
50. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
51. Extremely pleasing.
52. Two items of the same kind.
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1. 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.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
10. A person of French descent.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
38. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
39. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. A state in midwestern United States.
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