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1. A French abbot.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. Tag the base runner to get him out.
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
12. A boy or man.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
17. Not reflecting light.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. The sign language used in the United States.
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A quantity of no importance.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
46. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
47. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
48. Noisy talk.
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1. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Anything that serves as an enticement.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A New England state.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
33. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
34. Again but in a new or different way.
35. South African term for `boss'.
36. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
40. A young woman making her debut into society.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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