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1. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
5. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
11. The highest level or degree attainable.
12. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
15. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
21. The second largest city in Tunisia.
23. The airforce of Great Britain.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
33. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
40. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
48. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
49. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
4. English Romantic poet (1795-1821).
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
7. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
16. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
30. The sound made by corvine birds.
34. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
35. Having been read.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
42. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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