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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
15. An unforeseen obstacle.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. The last (12th) month of the year.
27. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
29. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
32. (informal) Exceptionally good.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
39. Not only so, but.
41. Being nine more than ninety.
42. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
45. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
46. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
48. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
7. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
8. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
9. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
10. A three-tone Chadic language.
18. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
22. Fallow deer.
24. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
25. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Any plant of the genus Erica.
31. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
33. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
34. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
35. Type genus of the Hylidae.
36. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A bachelor's degree in religion.
44. A radioactive transuranic element.
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