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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A Loloish language.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
13. The seed of the cereal grass.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. Top part of an apron.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
31. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
34. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
37. A master's degree in fine arts.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
43. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
46. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
47. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
48. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
7. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
8. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
9. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
10. Flat tableland with steep edges.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
25. Being nine more than ninety.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. Mastiff bats.
30. Tag the base runner to get him out.
32. Greek mythology.
33. Cause to be embarrassed.
35. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
36. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
45. A state in midwestern United States.
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