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1. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
5. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
8. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
11. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
12. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
13. A rapid bustling commotion.
14. Two items of the same kind.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
23. A master's degree in business.
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
47. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
48. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
51. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
5. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
10. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Earlier a god.
41. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
42. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. Extremely pleasing.
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