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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. God of the earth.
8. Inquire about.
11. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. A resource.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A master's degree in business.
20. A large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling.
23. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
24. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.
26. 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.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Seed of a pea plant.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
2. Found along western Atlantic coast.
3. Free from dirt or impurities.
4. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
5. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
6. Expel, as of gases and odors.
7. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
19. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A genus of Mustelidae.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
40. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
44. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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