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1. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. In bed.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
17. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
18. Step on it.
20. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
32. A French abbot.
33. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
38. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. How long something has existed.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
3. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
4. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. The quantity contained in a keg.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
9. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
10. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
15. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. Extremely pleasing.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Being one more than fifty.
28. A bachelor's degree in religion.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
34. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
43. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
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