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1. 10 grams.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. An accountant certified by the state.
11. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
12. The act of scanning.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
22. Jordan's port.
23. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
27. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
36. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
38. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
40. The sixth month of the civil year.
42. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
46. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
2. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
3. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. Squash bugs.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
10. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A decree that prohibits something.
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
30. A large fleet.
31. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
35. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. An honorary degree in science.
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