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1. Inquire about.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A wine bottle made of leather.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
35. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
37. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
40. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
46. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
47. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
48. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
49. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
5. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Failing to detonate.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
21. A radioactive transuranic element.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. 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.
27. The cry made by sheep.
28. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
29. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
31. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
32. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. A New England state.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
42. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
45. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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