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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A Loloish language.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A police officer who investigates crimes.
15. A town in north central Oklahoma.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
21. Short and fat.
24. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
30. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
40. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. God of the underworld.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
4. A city in northwestern Syria.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
19. A genus of Platalea.
22. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
32. A master's degree in fine arts.
33. A genus of Ploceidae.
35. The content of cognition.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. God of death.
39. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
41. The airforce of Great Britain.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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