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1. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. In bed.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A doctor's degree in education.
15. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. The capital and largest city of Iran.
36. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
41. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
42. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
44. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
48. A local computer network for communication between computers.
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1. Of or relating to or involving an area.
2. A genus of Ploceidae.
3. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
7. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A degenerate neutron star.
19. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
25. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. A decree that prohibits something.
28. An industrial region in the Ukraine.
30. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
31. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
32. God of wealth and love.
33. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
35. Very dark black.
39. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
40. A loud harsh or strident noise.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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