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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. Extremely pleasing.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
11. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
12. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. United States writer (born in 1925).
16. Informal terms for money.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. Jordan's port.
23. A light touch or stroke.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
47. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
48. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
2. Armor plate that protects the chest.
3. A resource.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
6. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
7. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
15. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Preliminary drawing for later elaboration.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
33. The first Hindu calendar month (corresponding to March or April in the Gregorian calendar).
35. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. Offering fun and gaiety.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
42. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
45. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
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