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1. God of the underworld.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
11. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. (prefix) Outside or outer.
14. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
16. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
17. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
24. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
28. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
29. An informal term for a father.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. The month following January and preceding March.
45. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
46. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. At or constituting a border or edge.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
2. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
8. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
9. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
10. An atom having a valence of one.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. Greek mythology.
25. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
35. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. The emotion of hate.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
44. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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