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1. A young woman making her debut into society.
4. One thousandth of a second.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
12. The highest level or degree attainable.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. Material used to daub walls.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
21. An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts).
23. That is to say.
24. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. A radioactive transuranic element.
33. Not only so, but.
39. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
43. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
44. A fraudulent business scheme.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
47. Avatar of Vishnu.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
3. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
4. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
7. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
8. Being in a tense state.
9. Related to or located at the back.
10. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. An irregularly shaped spot.
22. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
25. The airforce of Great Britain.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. Unknown god.
29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
34. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
41. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
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