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1. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
5. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
8. How long something has existed.
11. Armor plate that protects the chest.
12. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
13. A light touch or stroke.
14. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
15. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
16. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
18. (British) Your grandmother.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
38. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A city in the European part of Russia.
44. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
46. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Before noon.
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1. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
4. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
5. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
6. The month following July and preceding September.
7. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
9. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
10. Very dark black.
17. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
20. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
41. A young woman making her debut into society.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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