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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
13. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927).
23. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
26. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
27. A bachelor's degree in religion.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
31. Being one more than one hundred.
32. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
36. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Offering fun and gaiety.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. The basic unit of money in China.
53. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A resource.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. (informal) Roused to anger.
7. The ninth month of the civil year.
8. A fraudulent business scheme.
9. A beautiful and graceful girl.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
19. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
21. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
22. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
30. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Jordan's port.
37. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A light touch or stroke.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
50. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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