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1. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
5. Call upon in supplication.
8. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
11. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. How long something has existed.
20. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
24. A doctor's degree in education.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. Tag the base runner to get him out.
31. An informal term for a father.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
39. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
42. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Serving as or forming a base.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
4. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
5. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A province in north-central China.
8. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
10. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
33. Confused movement.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Jordan's port.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
40. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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