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1. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. 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).
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
16. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
17. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Slightly open.
23. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. Give a nickname to.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. 1/1000 gram.
33. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
35. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
38. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
45. Using speech rather than writing.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
5. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
8. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
9. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
10. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
15. Made of fir or pine.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
21. 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.
26. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
28. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
29. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
31. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
32. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
34. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
41. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
43. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
44. A state in New England.
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