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1. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
4. A French abbot.
8. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
11. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
12. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
15. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
21. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
31. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
34. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
36. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
41. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
43. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
44. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
45. In bed.
46. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
3. A separate part of a whole.
4. A large fleet.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
7. Take in solid food.
8. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
9. Divulge information or secrets.
10. The closing section of a musical composition.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
26. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
36. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
40. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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