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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
7. The probability of a specified outcome.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
16. Either extremity of something that has length.
18. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A flexible container with a single opening.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The face or front of a building.
27. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
34. By bad luck.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
48. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
50. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
53. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
54. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
55. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
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1. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
4. A radioactive transuranic element.
5. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
6. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
7. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
8. The habitation of wild animals.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
17. An informal term for a father.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A light touch or stroke.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
37. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
46. On or toward the lee.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
49. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
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