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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. In bed.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
30. Top part of an apron.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. Being one more than one.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. The cry made by sheep.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
50. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
51. Type genus of the Anatidae.
52. A master's degree in business.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Hit hard.
5. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
6. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
7. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Summer cypress.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. Not widely known.
38. Very dark black.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
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