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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. A unit of pressure.
8. Inquire about.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A formation of people or things one beside another.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
24. The capital of Croatia.
26. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Slightly open.
34. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Largest crested screamer.
41. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
47. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. Range of what one can know or understand.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. In bed.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. The act of scanning.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
20. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
23. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
25. A Hindu prince or king in India.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
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