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1. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
5. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
11. A Loloish language.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. The fatty flesh of eel.
14. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
31. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
33. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. In bed.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. Jordan's port.
3. Adopted in order to deceive.
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
7. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
8. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
9. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A radioactive transuranic element.
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
40. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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