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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
12. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
13. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
14. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
15. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. 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.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
26. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
29. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
33. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
35. A master's degree in business.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A light touch or stroke.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
50. The content of cognition.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
55. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Avatar of Vishnu.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
6. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. A city in northern India.
10. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
16. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
18. A bottle with a stopper.
20. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
23. A doctor's degree in religion.
25. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
27. 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.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
30. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
31. A Russian river.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
41. Slightly open.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Lacking in light.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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