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1. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family.
12. An associate degree in applied science.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
17. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A French abbot.
24. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. God of death.
30. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
33. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. An insane person.
39. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
41. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
42. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
45. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
46. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
10. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
15. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
16. A genus of Pyralidae.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
23. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
31. Indigo bush.
32. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
34. Not widely known.
35. Very dark black.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
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