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1. Divulge information or secrets.
5. A white trivalent metallic element.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
13. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
14. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
17. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The ending of a series or sequence.
24. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
27. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
33. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
36. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
37. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
42. In bed.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. A toilet in England.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A bachelor's degree in music.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
5. Singing jazz.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. The vein in the center of a leaf.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A noisy riotous fight.
10. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
19. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
26. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
28. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
29. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
38. God of the earth.
39. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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