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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
12. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
15. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
24. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Of or relating or belonging to a city.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
44. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
45. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
46. God of love and erotic desire.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
49. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
50. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
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1. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
2. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
3. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
7. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
23. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
34. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
35. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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