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1. Related to or located at the back.
5. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A large fleet.
20. (Roman Catholic Church) A book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year.
22. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
23. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
28. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
29. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
33. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
38. English philologist (1835-1912).
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. Having leadership guidance.
47. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
48. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. Crowd or pack to capacity.
4. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
5. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Unknown god.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. The female or generative principle.
31. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
36. In bed.
37. An informal term for a father.
39. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
41. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
44. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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