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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Take in solid food.
13. One thousand grams.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
17. The sign language used in the United States.
19. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
23. Rub elbows with.
26. Being nine more than ninety.
27. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A blind god.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
44. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
45. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
10. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
18. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
20. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
21. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
32. Talk pompously.
33. The cry made by sheep.
36. An inhabitant of Lappland.
37. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
42. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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