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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. The month following August and preceding October.
8. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
11. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. (British) Informal term for information.
17. Before noon.
19. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A soft silvery metallic element.
33. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
36. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
39. An associate degree in applied science.
40. An unofficial association of people or groups.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
45. God of love and erotic desire.
46. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
47. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
4. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
7. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
9. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
10. Obvious and dull.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. Half the width of an em.
26. Extremely pleasing.
28. Relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle.
29. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
34. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. A lyric poet.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A light touch or stroke.
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