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1. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix.
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
26. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
30. In bed.
35. Jordan's port.
39. God of death.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
45. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
46. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
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1. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
2. Father of the storm gods Marut.
3. (Sumerian) Sun god.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
36. God of love and erotic desire.
37. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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