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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Characteristic of a mob.
7. In a competent capable manner.
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. Make amends for.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
15. Not out.
16. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
17. A flexible container with a single opening.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. A unit of pressure.
23. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. In bed.
35. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
43. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
46. God of the earth.
47. Fallow deer.
48. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
5. A Russian river.
6. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Immediately past.
10. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
19. Dwell (archaic).
21. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
33. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
34. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
36. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
41. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
44. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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