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1. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
4. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
7. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
11. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
12. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
13. In bed.
14. A disease of infants and young children.
16. An informal term for a father.
17. An expression of greeting.
18. A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A language group of the Hokan family.
22. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
23. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
26. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
36. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
42. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
43. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
44. How long something has existed.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. An awkward stupid person.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. Unable to relax or be still.
2. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
3. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
4. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
5. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
6. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
19. A drama set to music.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. Lower in esteem.
32. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
34. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
35. A fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae.
36. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. The cry made by sheep.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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