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1. Take in solid food.
4. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
16. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
25. The capital of Croatia.
26. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
28. A master's degree in fine arts.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
34. Obvious and dull.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
43. A human limb.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. Water frozen in the solid state.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. God of love and erotic desire.
48. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A boy or man.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. Among the largest bony fish.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
19. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
31. Strong and sharp.
32. Any plant of the genus Erica.
33. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
35. In bed.
36. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
37. A quantity of no importance.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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