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1. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
4. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
8. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
11. A Nilotic language.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. A loft for storing hay.
14. The month following March and preceding May.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Provide with a new seat, as of a chair.
19. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
21. A member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala.
22. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
23. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
24. The content of cognition.
27. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
29. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. Before noon.
32. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
34. Aimlessly drifting.
38. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
41. The fatty flesh of eel.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A manner of performance.
45. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
46. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.
2. The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka.
3. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
5. Related on the mother's side.
6. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
7. A deep bow.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
10. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
18. Enthusiastic approval.
20. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
25. In an unnatural eery manner.
26. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
36. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
37. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
42. A radioactive transuranic element.
43. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
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