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1. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
4. One thousandth of a second.
8. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
11. The last (12th) month of the year.
12. A genus of Mustelidae.
13. Late time of life.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
17. A state in northwestern North America.
19. Greek mythology.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
30. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
34. Ending in a sharp point.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. The cry made by sheep.
42. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. Wild and domestic cattle.
50. A young woman making her debut into society.
51. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
4. The food served and eaten at one time.
5. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
6. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
7. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
8. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. Fallow deer.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
29. Having a claw or claws.
31. The month following July and preceding September.
33. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
34. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
35. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
36. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
43. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Take in solid food.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. An informal term for a father.
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