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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
11. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
12. A Scottish word.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
15. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. Jordan's port.
20. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
21. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
36. A light touch or stroke.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Type genus of the Anatidae.
48. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
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1. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
2. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
3. Tropical Asian starlings.
4. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
5. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
6. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
7. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. A city in northern India.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
27. An insane person.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A human limb.
32. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
33. Lower in esteem.
35. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
37. South African term for `boss'.
41. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
42. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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