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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. Late time of life.
12. In bed.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance.
24. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
25. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A state in the eastern United States.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. Not only so, but.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
45. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
46. A fraudulent business scheme.
47. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. God of love and erotic desire.
50. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
3. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
7. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
8. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
19. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
34. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
36. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. Inquire about.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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