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1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
14. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
15. A public promotion of some product or service.
16. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A son who has the same first name as his father.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. 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.
24. A bachelor's degree in theology.
25. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
30. Used of the language of the deaf.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
40. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
51. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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1. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. United States Film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937).
9. A person of unquestioning obedience.
10. With a forward motion.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. 35th President of the United States.
27. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A native of ancient Troy.
31. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
39. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
41. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
44. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
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