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1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
11. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
18. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
19. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A young woman making her debut into society.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
43. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
45. A master's degree in business.
46. A doctor's degree in education.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
3. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
8. Any taillike structure.
9. Lean end of the neck.
10. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
28. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. South African term for `boss'.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. An awkward stupid person.
42. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
43. A small piece of cloth.
44. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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