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1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
7. A primeval personification of air and breath.
11. An affirmative.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Knock unconscious or senseless.
14. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
15. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
16. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
17. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
25. An informal term for a father.
29. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
39. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
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1. Type genus of the Hylidae.
2. Made of fir or pine.
3. A Loloish language.
4. A building where prostitutes are available.
5. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
6. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
7. Jordan's port.
8. The mother of Jesus.
9. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
10. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. Fiddler crabs.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. Before noon.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. South African term for `boss'.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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