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1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
4. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
12. A boy or man.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
21. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
27. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
30. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. 16 ounces.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. Derive or receive pleasure from.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
50. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
54. Having much flesh (especially fat).
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A farewell remark.
2. A yellow quartz.
3. The capital and largest city of Japan.
4. Anything that covers or conceals.
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
6. The content of cognition.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. By bad luck.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
18. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. The cry made by sheep.
22. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. A large fleet.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. An uproarious party.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. God of love and erotic desire.
47. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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