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1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
5. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A local computer network for communication between computers.
17. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Free from liquid or moisture.
25. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
44. Any high mountain.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. Being one more than nine.
49. A primeval personification of air and breath.
50. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
3. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. The bill in a restaurant.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
8. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
9. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
10. A vigorous blow.
19. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
20. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
21. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. In bed.
31. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. The skin that covers the top of the head.
35. Treated with oil.
36. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
38. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
39. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
43. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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