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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
12. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
15. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
17. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Any plant of the genus Erica.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. The month following July and preceding September.
32. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Very dark black.
43. Being two more than fifty.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. Your general store of remembered information.
46. Water frozen in the solid state.
47. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
48. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
5. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
6. Fiddler crabs.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A motley assortment of things.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
22. 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.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A number to which another number (the addend) is added.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
34. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. An onerous or difficult concern.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
42. Not in good physical or mental health.
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