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1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
7. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
11. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
12. Being nine more than forty.
13. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
14. Top part of an apron.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
25. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Not only so, but.
38. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Colloquial British abbreviation.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
46. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
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1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
2. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
3. 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).
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886).
6. Moving very fast.
7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
8. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. Jordan's port.
32. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
33. Related on the mother's side.
35. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
36. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
37. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A New England state.
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