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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Toward the mouth or oral region.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. A large fleet.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
46. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
48. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. Shift from one side of the ship to the other.
51. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. Botfly larva.
5. Of or relating to or involving an area.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Covered with scabs.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
35. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
39. Produced by a manufacturing process.
43. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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