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1. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Water frozen in the solid state.
15. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. Singing jazz.
19. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. God of love and erotic desire.
23. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
44. A slender double-reed instrument.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
47. A Loloish language.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. Before noon.
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1. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere v 1.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
6. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
18. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
20. A mountainous region in central Italy.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. The capital of Nationalist China.
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
38. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
39. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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