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1. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. How long something has existed.
13. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
14. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
15. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
17. 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.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
24. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
26. At or constituting a border or edge.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. An enclosed space.
45. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. Bringing death.
3. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
4. Avatar of Vishnu.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. Fallow deer.
10. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
16. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
22. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
29. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
33. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. A unit of pressure.
39. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Informal terms for a mother.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
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