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1. An accidental happening.
4. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
19. Any of various units of capacity.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
31. God of war.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
36. 16 ounces.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. The content of cognition.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A metallic tapping sound.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A master's degree in business.
49. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. Immediately past.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A motley assortment of things.
7. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
29. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
41. Fallow deer.
43. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. A case for containing a set of articles.
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