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1. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
5. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. God of love and erotic desire.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Informal terms for a mother.
17. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
24. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A light touch or stroke.
33. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A primeval personification of air and breath.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. Avatar of Vishnu.
49. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
50. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
51. (informal) A bunch.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
5. Preserve a dead body.
6. A master's degree in business.
7. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. The act of scanning.
18. The skin that covers the top of the head.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
23. A genus of Lamnidae.
25. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Foul with waste matter.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
37. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
40. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
46. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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