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1. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
7. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. An elaborate song for solo voice.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Any competition.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. A port city in southwestern Iran.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. A light touch or stroke.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The sixth month of the civil year.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
3. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
4. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. 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.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
28. Not subjected to an aging process.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
41. An accountant certified by the state.
42. The last (12th) month of the year.
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