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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. One thousand grams.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Lower in esteem.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Spread or daub over.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
46. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
47. Water frozen in the solid state.
48. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
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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. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. A colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. (informal) Roused to anger.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
36. The month following February and preceding April.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. 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 city in north central Morocco.
44. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
45. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
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