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1. The month following September and preceding November.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
15. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
16. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
27. A kind of person.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
35. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
38. Distant in either space or time.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A person forced to flee from home or country.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. In bed.
48. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. To an excessive degree.
4. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
9. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
23. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
25. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
28. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
29. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
34. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. Before noon.
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