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1. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
4. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
8. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
14. Not only so, but.
15. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
16. A state in northwestern North America.
17. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
18. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. An informal term for a father.
26. 1/10 gram.
27. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
30. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Humorously vulgar.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The act of rising upward into the air.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
3. Fiddler crabs.
4. A state in midwestern United States.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. One million periods per second.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Some point in the air.
9. The sixth month of the civil year.
10. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
25. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
31. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
32. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
34. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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