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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
16. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. God of wealth and love.
26. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
28. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
35. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
48. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
49. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Seed of a pea plant.
4. Term of address for a man.
5. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
6. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
10. A wine bottle made of leather.
18. The capital of Croatia.
20. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. 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.
25. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
27. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
29. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
33. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
34. Greek mythology.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
42. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
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