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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
8. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
16. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
18. An associate degree in nursing.
19. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
24. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A contestant who loses the contest.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
47. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
52. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
53. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
4. Toward the mouth or oral region.
5. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
6. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
7. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
8. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
9. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
10. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
15. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. A state in southeastern United States.
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. A bachelor's degree in religion.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
41. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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