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1. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
4. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. Having three dimensions.
15. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
31. Find repugnant.
34. The act of scanning.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. An associate degree in applied science.
43. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
44. British informal term.
45. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Lie adjacent to another.
3. Any loose flowing garment.
4. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
5. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
6. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. The cry made by sheep.
30. The sacred city of Lamaism.
32. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. 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.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
41. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
42. Misery resulting from affliction.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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