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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
14. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. God of the earth.
16. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A radioactive transuranic element.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
45. Produced by a manufacturing process.
46. Before noon.
48. A primeval personification of air and breath.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
3. (informal) Roused to anger.
4. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
5. How long something has existed.
6. Rapid and indistinct speech.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. Chief port of Yemen.
10. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
18. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
22. A state in midwestern United States.
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. Slightly open.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
35. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
36. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
38. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
43. The cry made by sheep.
47. 1/10 gram.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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