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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. (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.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. A master's degree in fine arts.
22. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
26. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
27. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
29. With safety.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The Latin name for England.
37. The airforce of Great Britain.
41. 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).
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. The top edge of a vessel.
44. The month following February and preceding April.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
5. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
9. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
10. An informal term for a father.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
25. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
28. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
30. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
31. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
32. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
39. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
40. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
41. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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