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1. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
11. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
13. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
16. Lower in esteem.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. 35th President of the United States.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. French novelist.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A port in southwestern Scotland.
50. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
51. In or of the month preceding the present one.
52. An Eskimo hut.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
3. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
4. Jordan's port.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. Before noon.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
9. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
10. Humble request for help.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
35. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
36. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
38. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
43. The products of human creativity.
45. Not in good physical or mental health.
46. The basic unit of money in Romania.
49. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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