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1. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
5. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
8. A flexible container with a single opening.
11. Employed in accomplishing something.
12. Something that remunerates.
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
14. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
15. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
16. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. The face or front of a building.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. Type genus of the Anatidae.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
26. Food for domestic livestock.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
35. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
38. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
41. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
42. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
43. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
45. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
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1. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
2. Earlier a god.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. The capital and largest city of Japan.
5. An accountant certified by the state.
6. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
7. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
8. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
18. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
20. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
22. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
32. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
33. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
34. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
36. A French abbot.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
40. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
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