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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
13. The sixth day of the week.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
17. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
18. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
28. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
32. The second largest continent.
34. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
36. Loose or flaccid body fat.
39. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
42. Fiddler crabs.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
46. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
47. God of death.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. Again but in a new or different way.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
5. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
9. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
10. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
19. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
21. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A lyric poet.
27. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
29. Imperial moths.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. Make lighter or brighter.
33. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
35. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. With no effort to conceal.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Before noon.
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