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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
12. Common Indian weaverbird.
13. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. Jordan's port.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. 1/10 gram.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
50. A master's degree in education.
51. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
54. An accidental happening.
55. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
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1. Bound or secured closely.
2. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
3. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. A port in southwestern Scotland.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Extremely pleasing.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Squash bugs.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. In bed.
39. A quantity of no importance.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. Of southern Europe.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
52. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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