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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. The sign language used in the United States.
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. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A town in north central Oklahoma.
16. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
17. By bad luck.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
26. (in Scotland) A child.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
31. A state in northwestern North America.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A periodic paperback publication.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
45. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
46. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
47. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A French abbot.
50. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
51. Being one more than fifty.
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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. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
7. Late time of life.
8. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
9. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
10. The sound of laughing.
18. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
20. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. Jordan's port.
33. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
36. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
37. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
42. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
43. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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