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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
14. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
15. Lower in esteem.
17. Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front.
21. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
24. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
27. Metal shackles.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
30. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
32. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
38. The eleventh month of the civil year.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
45. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
3. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
10. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
19. Relating to the veins of plants.
20. Inability to walk.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. Rounded like an egg.
34. Common Indian weaverbird.
35. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
36. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
37. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
39. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. In operation or operational.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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