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1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Fraught with extreme danger.
11. To what extent or amount or degree.
12. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
17. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
24. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. African mahogany trees.
39. The fatty flesh of eel.
40. Immediately past.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
45. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
46. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
47. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
2. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
3. A person of unquestioning obedience.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
9. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
10. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
16. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
19. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
21. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
23. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
25. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. (trademark) An antacid.
33. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A sudden short attack.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
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