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1. The month following August and preceding October.
5. A bachelor's degree in religion.
7. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
11. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
17. God of wealth and love.
19. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. Wood of a pecan tree.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
48. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
50. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
51. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
52. A city in northwestern Syria.
53. British informal term.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
56. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
3. Humble request for help.
4. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
5. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
8. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
23. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
32. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
34. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
37. Any plant of the genus Erica.
39. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. In bed.
43. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. Make an etching of.
47. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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