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1. An enclosed space.
4. A republic in central Europe.
7. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. (Babylonian) The sky god.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
15. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
16. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
17. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. Cause to feel resentment or indignation.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Jordan's port.
35. An endorsement.
37. The face or front of a building.
39. The last (12th) month of the year.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
43. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
47. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
48. Wearing or provided with clothing.
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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1. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
2. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
3. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
4. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
5. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
6. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
18. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
20. God of death.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Foul with waste matter.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
31. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
32. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
36. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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