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1. Make high-pitched, whiney noises.
5. A master's degree in business.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
16. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
25. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
31. A light touch or stroke.
32. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
34. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
35. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
37. A radioactive transuranic element.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
45. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
50. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
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1. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
4. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
5. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
24. Water frozen in the solid state.
26. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. A soft silvery metallic element.
29. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
30. The face or front of a building.
33. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
34. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. South African term for `boss'.
41. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
43. Used of a single unit or thing.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
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