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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. A boy or man.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
18. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
26. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
30. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
33. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
51. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
2. The act of catching an object with the hands.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
6. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
7. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
8. Speaking a Slavic language.
9. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
10. The content of cognition.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A bachelor's degree in religion.
36. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
43. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
46. Being one more than fifty.
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