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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
7. Employed in accomplishing something.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. The basic unit of money in Romania.
13. World's longest river (4187 miles).
14. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
15. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
21. Make secure by lashing.
24. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
28. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
30. (Judaism) Conforming to dietary laws.
33. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
34. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
42. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
43. The sixth day of the week.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. An affirmative.
47. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. Strike with a flat object.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
6. A branch of the Tai languages.
7. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. A notable achievement.
18. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
20. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
22. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
23. A town in central Belgium.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
29. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
31. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
32. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
36. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
39. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
41. An accountant certified by the state.
42. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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