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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
13. Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.
14. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
15. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
24. An expression of greeting.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. In bed.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
39. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
42. Used of physical heat.
45. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
46. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
47. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
48. Unknown god.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. An endorsement.
5. A state in New England.
6. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
7. Rate of revolution of a motor.
8. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
9. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
10. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
32. The event of dying or departure from life.
33. Used of a single unit or thing.
35. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. Fiddler crabs.
43. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
44. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
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