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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Very dark black.
13. Something that remunerates.
14. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
16. An expression of greeting.
19. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
39. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A city in the European part of Russia.
44. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
46. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
2. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
3. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
4. Cut the head of.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
6. An uproarious party.
7. Half the width of an em.
8. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
9. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
10. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
15. Shout loudly and without restraint.
17. Jordan's port.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
21. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
35. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
36. Not widely known.
37. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
46. A state in northwestern North America.
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