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1. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
5. The cry made by sheep.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
14. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
20. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. 1/10 gram.
27. A prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A large quantity of written matter.
44. The basic unit of money in Albania.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A French abbot.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. 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.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
4. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. Fallow deer.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
15. An associate degree in nursing.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Any of various units of capacity.
22. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
23. Affect with wonder.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. Jordan's port.
34. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
36. In bed.
37. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
42. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
43. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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