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1. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Taken or to be taken at random.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
20. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
21. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
22. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
24. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
38. An awkward stupid person.
43. (informal) Exceptionally good.
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
49. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
50. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. Made of fir or pine.
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
15. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
17. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
19. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
31. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A small nail.
37. The 4th planet from the sun.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A slender double-reed instrument.
41. A Loloish language.
42. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. Informal terms for a mother.
49. An informal term for a father.
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