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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
17. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Vigorously passionate.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
34. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
35. A quantity of no importance.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
48. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
49. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
50. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
51. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
52. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
53. Before noon.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. 16 ounces.
5. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
8. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
9. The capital of Morocco.
10. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
32. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
33. Brought to a halt.
38. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. A telephone connection.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
46. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
47. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
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