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1. The unit of frequency.
4. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A master's degree in business.
15. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
36. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
41. A strong emotion.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
48. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. An enclosed space.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
7. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. 1/10 gram.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A Russian river.
27. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. A drama set to music.
37. South African term for `boss'.
38. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
39. In bed.
40. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
43. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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