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1. An enclosed space.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
7. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
11. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
14. An associate degree in nursing.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
36. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
43. The content of cognition.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A doctor's degree in theology.
52. Avatar of Vishnu.
53. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
54. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. God of fire.
3. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
5. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
6. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
7. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
8. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. The cry made by sheep.
33. A resource.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A native-born Israeli.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
44. Fallow deer.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. A light touch or stroke.
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