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1. Noisy talk.
4. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
11. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
12. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. Any of various units of capacity.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. Used of locations.
26. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
29. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
33. Aimlessly drifting.
35. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
40. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
41. Black tropical American cuckoo.
43. Being one more than two.
44. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
45. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
46. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
4. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
7. An associate degree in applied science.
8. A motley assortment of things.
9. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
10. Using speech rather than writing.
20. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
21. Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
30. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
31. (Norse mythology) Giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom.
32. Of or relating to yoga.
34. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
38. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
39. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
42. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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