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1. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. A rapid bustling commotion.
11. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Similar or related in quality or character.
15. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
16. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
17. A light touch or stroke.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
26. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
27. A person forced to flee from home or country.
29. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. Being two more than fifty.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. A quantity of no importance.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Extremely pleasing.
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1. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
2. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
3. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
4. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
5. A large fleet.
6. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
7. Not divisible by two.
8. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
9. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
19. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
22. An informal term for a father.
23. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
24. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
28. A republic in central Africa.
30. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
31. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
32. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
40. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
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