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1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. With no effort to conceal.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
15. In bed.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
18. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
20. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
24. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
34. A deep bow.
38. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
39. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
42. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
43. A doctor's degree in music.
46. Either extremity of something that has length.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
3. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
4. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
5. A person with albinism.
6. Towards the side away from the wind.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
10. The act of scanning.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
21. 1/10 gram.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. State in northeastern India.
25. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
28. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
31. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
32. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
33. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
35. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
36. Set down according to a plan.
37. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
38. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
44. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
45. A radioactive transuranic element.
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