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1. Not reflecting light.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
11. The month following March and preceding May.
12. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
16. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
18. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
35. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
39. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
42. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
43. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. An awkward stupid person.
47. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. A Bantu language.
2. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
3. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
4. A Russian river.
5. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
8. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
9. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
10. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
15. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
20. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
36. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
37. A fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae.
38. South African term for `boss'.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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