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1. A humorous anecdote or remark.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. Highly excited.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
29. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
45. 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).
47. Of southern Europe.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. The content of cognition.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. In bed.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. 1/1000 gram.
7. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
8. God of fire.
9. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
10. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
17. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. The cry made by sheep.
32. With rapid movements.
33. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Type genus of the Anatidae.
36. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
41. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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