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1. How long something has existed.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
11. An accidental happening.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. By bad luck.
16. The sacred city of Lamaism.
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. A master's degree in fine arts.
19. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. The 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
27. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
39. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
41. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
42. (informal) Exceptionally good.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
47. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
10. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
15. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
20. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
21. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
24. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
25. An unofficial association of people or groups.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Jordan's port.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
36. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
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