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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
11. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
15. A master's degree in education.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. Jordan's port.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. Before noon.
22. An informal term for a father.
24. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
44. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
45. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
46. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
47. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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1. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
2. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
3. An atom having a valence of one.
4. Fallow deer.
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
18. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A person forced to flee from home or country.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
28. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
36. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. A state of southwestern India.
42. How long something has existed.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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