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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. An accountant certified by the state.
11. 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.
12. The act of scanning.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. By bad luck.
19. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
21. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
23. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
24. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
28. City in Sudan.
31. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
47. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
48. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. A bachelor's degree in science.
5. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Squash bugs.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
10. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
18. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
20. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. A Mid-Atlantic state.
26. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A Loloish language.
40. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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