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1. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
4. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
7. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
11. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. An Eskimo hut.
14. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
17. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
18. Widely known and esteemed.
21. Jordan's port.
23. Lower in esteem.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
31. Extremely pleasing.
34. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
41. The month following February and preceding April.
42. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
47. An uproarious party.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
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1. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
2. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
3. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
4. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. Being of delicate or slender build.
10. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
15. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
22. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
32. Largest known toad species.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A notable achievement.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
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