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1. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
20. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
23. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
24. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
25. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
38. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
43. Unknown god.
45. Posing no difficulty.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
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1. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
4. A flexible container with a single opening.
5. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
6. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
9. The wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth.
10. Humble in spirit or manner.
16. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. Offering little or no hope.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Type genus of the Ariidae.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
36. Showily imitative of art or artists.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. Fiddler crabs.
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