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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Used of physical heat.
7. Marked by the reception of pay.
11. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. God of the earth.
16. Imprudently incurring risk.
17. By bad luck.
19. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
22. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
32. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A young woman making her debut into society.
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. A light touch or stroke.
48. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. Having the slant of a bevel.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. Being one more than one hundred.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
7. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
10. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
18. Made afraid.
20. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Extremely pleasing.
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
43. American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948).
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
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