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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. The sign language used in the United States.
15. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
17. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
22. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Of or relating to or containing barium.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
36. A Loloish language.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
44. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
47. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
49. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Largest crested screamer.
2. Of or in or relating to the nose.
3. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
9. By bad luck.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
19. Jordan's port.
20. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
21. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
33. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
34. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
35. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
38. In bed.
41. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
45. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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