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1. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat v 1.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. A person active in party politics.
11. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
17. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Avatar of Vishnu.
23. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
26. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Baby bed with high sides.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. Seed of a pea plant.
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1. Large American feline resembling a lion.
2. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
3. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. Music performed for dancing the polka.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. A genus of Lamnidae.
18. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
19. A large fleet.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. Slightly wet.
37. A French abbot.
38. A quantity of no importance.
40. The products of human creativity.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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