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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
13. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
14. The money risked on a gamble.
15. Largest known toad species.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Not in action or at work.
23. Being five more than one hundred.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
31. The state of existing and being localized in space.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
37. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
39. A feeling of intense anger.
42. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
43. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
44. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
45. An enclosed space.
46. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
47. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
4. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. The capital of Croatia.
6. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. The act of scanning.
18. Foul with waste matter.
19. Being eight more than ninety.
20. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. A card game for 2 players.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
30. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
31. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
32. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
33. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
38. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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