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1. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A federally chartered savings bank.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. A son who has the same first name as his father.
45. A port in southwestern Scotland.
48. A Hindu prince or king in India.
50. In or of the month preceding the present one.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. Armor plate that protects the chest.
53. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A young woman making her debut into society.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A French abbot.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
36. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
38. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A Russian river.
42. The products of human creativity.
43. Extremely pleasing.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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