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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. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
7. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A master's degree in business.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
15. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
16. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. An informal term for a father.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
29. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A bachelor's degree in theology.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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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. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The basic unit of money in Macao.
7. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. God of love and erotic desire.
10. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
22. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. How long something has existed.
42. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
43. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
44. Informal terms for a mother.
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