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1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
8. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Absent without permission.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
15. In or of the present month.
16. The fatty flesh of eel.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
27. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
28. An Anatolian language.
31. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
44. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. Having leadership guidance.
47. A small piece of cloth.
48. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
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1. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. Flat tableland with steep edges.
4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
5. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
6. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
7. In or of the month preceding the present one.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
10. River in eastern Asia.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
19. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
21. Extremely pleasing.
23. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
24. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. Lower in esteem.
30. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
31. Wild and domestic cattle.
32. Of or relating to or involving an area.
33. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
36. 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.
39. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
40. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
41. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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