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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Two items of the same kind.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. French novelist.
30. Lower in esteem.
32. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
33. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A unit of pressure.
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
46. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
48. Used of a single unit or thing.
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
50. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
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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 logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A human female who does housework.
38. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Water frozen in the solid state.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. An honorary degree in science.
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