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1. The month following January and preceding March.
4. The habitation of wild animals.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
17. Causing fear or dread or terror.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. An enclosed space.
21. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
46. The fatty flesh of eel.
47. Common Indian weaverbird.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
2. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. 1/10 gram.
5. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
10. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
27. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
33. Obvious and dull.
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
36. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
37. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
38. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
39. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
41. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
43. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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