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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Before noon.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. Of or belonging to an aecium.
26. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
31. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
35. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
42. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Little known Kamarupan languages.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. The face of a timepiece.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Considerate and solicitous care.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. Jordan's port.
33. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
34. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
36. 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.
37. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
38. Before noon.
39. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
40. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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