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1. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. The closing section of a musical composition.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
11. A resource.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. 16 ounces.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
37. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
40. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
46. An informal term for a father.
50. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
51. Black tropical American cuckoo.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
55. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
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1. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
5. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
6. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. Jordan's port.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A person forced to flee from home or country.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A Hindu prince or king in India.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
43. Type genus of the Amiidae.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. Derive or receive pleasure from.
47. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
48. The airforce of Great Britain.
49. Water frozen in the solid state.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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