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1. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
13. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
15. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
16. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
30. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
38. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
43. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
46. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
49. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
52. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
53. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
54. A mythical Greek hero.
55. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
7. Before noon.
8. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
9. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
10. A quantity of no importance.
17. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
18. The cry made by sheep.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. A Russian river.
29. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
31. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
39. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
40. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
42. The second largest city in Tunisia.
44. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
45. Make an etching of.
47. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
48. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. A state in midwestern United States.
51. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
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