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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Highly excited.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. 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.
14. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
16. (Irish) The sea personified.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. The act of scanning.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. Be unbearably loud.
27. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
29. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. The month following July and preceding September.
35. In bed.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Tag the base runner to get him out.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Strike sharply.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A young woman making her debut into society.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
15. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
30. Refuse to acknowledge.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
37. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
44. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Liquid excretory product.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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