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1. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
5. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
12. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Affected manners intended to impress others.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A town in central Belgium.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
32. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
33. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
4. Least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol).
5. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
21. How long something has existed.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
27. Jordan's port.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. Informal terms for your occupation.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
41. An onerous or difficult concern.
42. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
43. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. The cry made by sheep.
52. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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