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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
16. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
25. Jordan's port.
28. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
31. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
32. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
33. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
35. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
36. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
53. With no effort to conceal.
54. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Before noon.
7. 1 species.
8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. An informal term for a father.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. An oil port in southern Iraq.
24. A master's degree in business.
26. Unknown god.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
38. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Set down according to a plan.
42. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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