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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
11. The capital and largest city of Japan.
12. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
13. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
14. Something causes misery or death.
16. Tag the base runner to get him out.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Before noon.
21. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
22. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
24. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
26. God of the earth.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
34. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
38. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
45. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
46. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
7. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
8. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters.
15. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
20. The largest city of Cameroon.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
33. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
34. Used of a single unit or thing.
35. Very fertile.
36. Look at with amorous intentions.
37. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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