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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
29. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
30. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
33. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
37. Being four more than fifty.
41. Water frozen in the solid state.
42. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
44. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
45. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
46. The basic unit of money in China.
47. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
6. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
8. Speaking a Slavic language.
9. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
10. An informal term for a father.
18. The basic unit of money in Spain.
19. A persistently annoying person.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. Any plant of the genus Erica.
32. A rise in the temperature of the body.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
38. Inquire about.
39. Pertaining to the forward part of a vessel.
40. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
43. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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