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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. 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.
13. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
14. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
35. God of love and erotic desire.
40. Again but in a new or different way.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The content of cognition.
48. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A boy or man.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. How long something has existed.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. Used of a single unit or thing.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
29. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. Obvious and dull.
33. The ending of a series or sequence.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
36. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
37. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
38. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
39. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
44. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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