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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. Serving as or forming a base.
11. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
15. An audiotape recording of sound.
16. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A state in New England.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. Lower in esteem.
30. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
32. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. A light touch or stroke.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.
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1. Type genus of the Nepidae.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
4. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
10. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
18. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. 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.
25. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
31. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
32. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
35. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
36. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
38. Extremely pleasing.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
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