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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. An informal term for a father.
16. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
17. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
18. A very light brown.
19. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. Very dark black.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. Half the width of an em.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
37. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. Used of a single unit or thing.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. A doctor's degree in education.
51. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
52. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
2. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
3. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
22. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. Greek mythology.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. Advanced in years.
40. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
45. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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