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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. 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.
12. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. By bad luck.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
27. With self-possession (especially in times of stress).
30. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
34. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. Immature of its kind.
50. A tight-fitting headdress.
53. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
54. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
55. The sixth month of the civil year.
56. Towards the side away from the wind.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
5. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. God of wealth and love.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
20. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
23. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
24. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
32. Half the width of an em.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Rounded like an egg.
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
45. On or toward the lee.
47. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
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