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1. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
4. Informal terms for a mother.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. An enclosed space.
12. Divulge information or secrets.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
15. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
21. Located at or near the back of an animal.
22. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. Adult female chicken.
44. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
50. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
2. United States film maker (1897-1991).
3. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
6. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
19. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
23. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
29. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
32. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
33. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
35. In bed.
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
46. Being nine more than ninety.
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