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1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. An accidental happening.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
15. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. Not only so, but.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
21. The sign language used in the United States.
24. In bed.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. At or to or toward the front.
30. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
32. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
38. (informal) Exceptionally good.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. African mahogany trees.
2. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
3. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
4. Former measure of the US economy.
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Top part of an apron.
9. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
19. The cry made by sheep.
22. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
23. English monk and scholar (672-735).
25. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
26. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
29. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
33. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.
34. A quantity of no importance.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
39. A state of southwestern India.
40. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
41. How long something has existed.
42. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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