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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
7. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
13. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
17. The last (12th) month of the year.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Cause to become detached or separated.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
29. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. The bill in a restaurant.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
49. A doctor's degree in education.
50. Offering fun and gaiety.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
5. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
6. A port city in southwestern Iran.
7. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
8. A quantity of no importance.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
21. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. A master's degree in fine arts.
35. Of or relating to or involving an area.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
38. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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