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1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
8. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
11. Black tropical American cuckoo.
12. God of death.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A violent throw.
15. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
16. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. Relating to or characteristic of alps.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
27. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
34. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
36. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
44. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
45. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
46. (Babylonian) The sky god.
47. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
48. Distant in either space or time.
49. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
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1. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
2. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
5. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
6. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
7. British informal term.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
10. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
29. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
31. A native of ancient Troy.
35. An awkward stupid person.
36. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
37. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
38. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Serving as an essential component.
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