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1. How long something has existed.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
11. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
12. A genus of Mustelidae.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. A city in east central Texas.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
21. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
23. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
24. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. An audiotape recording of sound.
47. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. An informal term for a father.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. Fasten by sewing.
5. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
6. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A Russian river.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
32. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
33. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. Largest known toad species.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Make an etching of.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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