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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
8. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
11. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
18. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
23. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
24. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
29. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
32. A state in north central United States.
34. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
51. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
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1. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
4. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
8. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
10. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
19. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
26. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. How long something has existed.
33. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
34. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. In bed.
38. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
39. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
42. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
43. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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