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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. Hit hard.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. English monk and scholar (672-735).
14. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
15. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
36. (trademark) An antacid.
40. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
43. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
46. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
50. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
3. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
8. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. God of death.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
21. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
25. A white trivalent metallic element.
26. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. 16 ounces.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. 1 species of terrestrial ferns of New Zealand.
33. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
37. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
38. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
39. A doctor's degree in optometry.
41. Very dark black.
42. God of love and erotic desire.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. Informal terms for a mother.
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