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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. A doctor's degree in education.
14. An associate degree in applied science.
15. Any competition.
16. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
17. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
26. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
29. A Spanish river.
30. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. The eleventh month of the civil year.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
44. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
46. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
5. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. A Russian river.
24. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
25. Not only so, but.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
36. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
37. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
38. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. A resource.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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