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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. A master's degree in business.
7. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
11. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
14. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
18. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. An informal term for a father.
31. Top part of an apron.
34. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
45. How long something has existed.
46. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
48. The highest level or degree attainable.
49. The seventh and last day of the week.
50. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. The quantity a cask will hold.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A New England state.
4. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
8. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
9. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
10. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. In bed.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
32. A beckoning gesture.
33. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
36. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
38. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
39. A branch of the Tai languages.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
43. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. A state in midwestern United States.
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