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1. A polite name for any woman.
5. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
7. A Loloish language.
11. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
12. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
13. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
14. Clean or orderly.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
17. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. An expression of greeting.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
36. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
38. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
42. Black tropical American cuckoo.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
44. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
45. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
46. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
47. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
2. Sour or bitter in taste.
3. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
4. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
10. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. (trademark) An antacid.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
32. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
39. The residue that remains when something is burned.
40. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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