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1. Botfly larva.
4. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
7. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A city in northern India.
14. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
16. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Obvious and dull.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. A port city in southwestern Iran.
42. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
48. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. South African term for `boss'.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A three-tone Chadic language.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
5. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
6. A white trivalent metallic element.
7. Held back.
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
10. A university in Connecticut.
15. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
20. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
22. A light touch or stroke.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. Any of various units of capacity.
27. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. An extreme state of adversity.
31. Squash bugs.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Type genus of the Anatidae.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. Informal terms for a mother.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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