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1. With no effort to conceal.
5. 1/10 gram.
7. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
11. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
12. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
13. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
14. Of a quality, as in.
15. Informal terms for a mother.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
32. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
42. The month following February and preceding April.
43. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
45. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
48. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
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1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Fallow deer.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A genus of Ploceidae.
10. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
18. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
31. A master's degree in business.
33. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
36. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
37. Being of delicate or slender build.
38. Uttering in an irritated tone.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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