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1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Not only so, but.
42. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
45. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
48. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
50. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
55. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
56. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Of or relating to or involving an area.
2. A genus of Ploceidae.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
5. A master's degree in library science.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. God of wealth and love.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
25. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
28. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
40. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
41. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. An accidental happening.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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