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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. Toward the mouth or oral region.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
21. An informal term for a father.
23. Inquire about.
25. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
27. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
31. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
33. Lower in esteem.
34. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A state in southeastern United States.
38. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
42. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
45. A period of time spent sleeping.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. A deep bow.
7. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
8. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
19. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
22. Two items of the same kind.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Tag the base runner to get him out.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
37. Wearing or provided with clothing.
38. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
39. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Seed of a pea plant.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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