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1. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
4. The cry made by sheep.
7. The back side of the neck.
11. Gone by.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
15. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
16. A man who serves as a sailor.
17. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
19. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Without moral standards or principles.
25. Capital of modern Macedonia.
26. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
28. Black tropical American cuckoo.
29. A Loloish language.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
38. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
39. The content of cognition.
43. (informal) Roused to anger.
44. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
45. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A genus of Mustelidae.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
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1. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
2. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. The twelfth month of the civil year.
18. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
27. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
33. A doctor's degree in optometry.
35. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
40. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. The airforce of Great Britain.
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