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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. Toward the mouth or oral region.
8. Of southern Europe.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
15. Make an etching of.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. God of war.
21. An informal term for a father.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Any of various small biting flies.
31. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
40. An associate degree in applied science.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
50. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
8. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Fallow deer.
23. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
26. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
30. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. An island of central Hawaii.
34. The beach at a seaside resort.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. An enclosed space.
42. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
43. Fiddler crabs.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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