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1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. In bed.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
35. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
49. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
50. Gone by.
51. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
52. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Extremely pleasing.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. How long something has existed.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Being one more than fifty.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A French abbot.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. 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.
38. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
39. The capital of Western Samoa.
40. South African term for `boss'.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
43. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
45. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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