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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. Armor plate that protects the chest.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
12. God of death.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. Black tropical American cuckoo.
15. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
24. 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.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
36. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. An audiotape recording of sound.
45. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
47. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. A fabric made by knitting.
4. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
5. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
6. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An enclosed space.
32. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
33. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. A Russian river.
41. The month following February and preceding April.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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