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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
8. Inquire about.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. A city in northern India.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
45. The capital and largest city of Japan.
46. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
47. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. A lyric poet.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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