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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. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
8. Any high mountain.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. An informal term for a father.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
40. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
43. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
46. (informal) Roused to anger.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
49. A doctor's degree in theology.
50. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. Little known Kamarupan languages.
52. Being one more than two.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A tight-fitting headdress.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A state in northwestern North America.
9. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Fallow deer.
24. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
29. A sweet innocent baby.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A branch of the Tai languages.
33. Music composed for dancing the conga.
35. A genus of Indriidae.
36. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
42. An enclosed space.
44. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
45. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
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