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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A Russian river.
7. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
11. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
13. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
14. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
15. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
24. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
25. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
31. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
32. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
35. Performance of moral or religious acts.
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
49. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Jordan's port.
5. Not in operation or operational.
6. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
7. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
8. A Loloish language.
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
19. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
23. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
26. Unknown god.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
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. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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