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1. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
4. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
18. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. A decree that prohibits something.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. In bed.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
52. A Loloish language.
53. Goddess of fate.
54. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
55. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
56. The cry made by sheep.
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1. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
2. A very light brown.
3. Made of fir or pine.
4. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
5. A genus of Mustelidae.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Top part of an apron.
19. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Material used to daub walls.
44. A city in northern India.
45. A quantity of no importance.
47. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
48. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
49. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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