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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
12. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
16. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
17. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
23. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Liquid excretory product.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
32. 10 grams.
35. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
37. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A white trivalent metallic element.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
46. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
48. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
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1. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
4. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
5. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
6. Not only so, but.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Among the largest bony fish.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
15. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
19. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
20. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
25. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
26. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
27. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
28. A radioactive transuranic element.
30. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
33. State in northeastern India.
34. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
40. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
45. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
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