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1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
5. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
7. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
11. A Scottish church.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
21. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
23. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
25. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
28. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
32. Sour or bitter in taste.
37. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
38. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
43. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
44. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
47. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Tropical Asian starlings.
3. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
4. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
5. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
9. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
10. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
15. An informal term for a father.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. A quantity of no importance.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
30. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
31. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
33. 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.
34. English essayist (1775-1834).
35. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
36. Uttering in an irritated tone.
37. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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