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1. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
15. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
18. Used in combination to denote the middle.
19. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. An expression of greeting.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. The basic unit of money in China.
39. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. An associate degree in applied science.
43. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
45. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
46. A doctor's degree in education.
47. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
48. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
6. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
7. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A human female who does housework.
16. 10 grams.
21. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
33. Lower in esteem.
34. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
36. God of love and erotic desire.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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