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1. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A yearning for something or to do something.
16. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
23. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
25. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
31. A deep bow.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A city in east central Texas.
42. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
47. The face of a timepiece.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A local computer network for communication between computers.
4. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
5. A genus of Platalea.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
10. Beet lacking swollen root.
15. A light touch or stroke.
18. 1 species.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
32. Largest known toad species.
33. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. Distant in either space or time.
35. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
41. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
42. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
44. A doctor's degree in religion.
45. An informal term for a father.
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