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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
8. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
11. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
12. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
17. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
19. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
20. Extremely pleasing.
21. 1/10 gram.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
25. Come into possession of.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
33. 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.
34. A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall).
37. A Loloish language.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. Type genus of the Gavidae.
47. The month following March and preceding May.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A quantity that is added.
51. Range of what one can know or understand.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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1. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A fraudulent business scheme.
4. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
5. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. God of wealth and love.
8. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. An informal term for a father.
22. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
24. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
26. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
27. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. Jordan's port.
36. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
38. Being three more than fifty.
39. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
40. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
41. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
42. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. British informal term.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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