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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
5. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
13. 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.
14. Fallow deer.
15. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Jordan's port.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. State in northeastern India.
42. A large fleet.
44. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
55. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. God of the Underworld.
4. Jordan's port.
5. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. How long something has existed.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
33. Russian country house.
34. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
37. Someone whose business is advertising.
38. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
45. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
50. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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