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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. A man who serves as a sailor.
16. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
17. A state in midwestern United States.
19. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
20. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
23. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. The 3rd planet from the sun.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Characteristic of false pride.
43. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
44. (Irish) The sea personified.
45. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
46. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
47. A doctor's degree in education.
48. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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1. An oil port in southern Iraq.
2. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
6. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
7. The month following March and preceding May.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
10. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
15. A master's degree in fine arts.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
21. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
22. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. An enclosed space.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Type genus of the Gavidae.
32. The address where a person lives.
33. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
34. Lower in esteem.
36. In bed.
37. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
38. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
39. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Black tropical American cuckoo.
42. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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