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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A young woman making her debut into society.
24. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
28. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
31. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A bachelor's degree in theology.
45. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
46. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
47. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A group of countries in special alliance.
3. A shape that sags.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
9. Baby bed with high sides.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
15. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
16. A city in east central Texas.
18. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
19. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
20. The content of cognition.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A small nail.
41. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
42. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
43. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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