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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A covering to disguise or conceal the face.
8. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
17. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
24. Avatar of Vishnu.
26. Overeat or eat immodestly.
30. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A light touch or stroke.
37. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
41. By bad luck.
44. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
46. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
47. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
5. A town in central Belgium.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A licensed medical practitioner.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
15. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
20. Suffering from abulia.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
27. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. A republic in central Africa.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
40. Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds.
42. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
43. Any of various units of capacity.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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