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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Establish the validity of something.
8. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. Of or belonging to an aecium.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. Black tropical American cuckoo.
32. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
36. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
41. The central area of a church.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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DOWN
1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. Lean end of the neck.
5. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. (used informally) Very small.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
18. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
19. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
23. Related by blood.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
28. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
30. Lower in esteem.
31. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
33. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
35. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
37. Extremely pleasing.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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