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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
37. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
41. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A resource.
47. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
50. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
51. The act of scanning.
52. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. A Russian river.
28. A state in southeastern United States.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
33. A trivial lie.
35. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
36. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
38. Very dark black.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
42. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
49. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
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