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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Chief port of Yemen.
13. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
14. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
19. A state in midwestern United States.
23. Made warm or hot.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. A master's degree in library science.
28. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
29. 35th President of the United States.
32. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
39. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. Divulge information or secrets.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
4. The person who plays that position on a football team.
5. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
9. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
15. An area that includes seats for several people.
20. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A light touch or stroke.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
42. The cry made by sheep.
46. 16 ounces.
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