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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A French abbot.
8. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
11. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
12. South African term for `boss'.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A slight indication.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. By bad luck.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
24. A city in north-central India.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. 1/10 gram.
30. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
33. Before noon.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
38. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
41. (informal) Exceptionally good.
43. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
49. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
6. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
7. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Acting like a clown or buffoon.
10. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
18. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
20. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. A bachelor's degree in science.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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