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1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. Large Indian antelope.
16. Half the width of an em.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
43. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
46. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
47. Relating to the Urdu language.
48. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
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1. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
2. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Extremely pleasing.
4. A doctor's degree in religion.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
9. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
17. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. Make less active or intense.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
34. Toward the mouth or oral region.
35. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
40. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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