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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Very dark black.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
16. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
19. Shaped like a dish.
21. A genus of Pyralidae.
23. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
24. A resource.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. A Russian river.
45. A case for containing a set of articles.
46. 10 grams.
47. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
48. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Cut the head of.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Held in slavery.
7. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
8. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
9. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
10. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
22. Fallow deer.
25. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
27. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. A female domestic.
37. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
39. A small piece of cloth.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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