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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
8. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A city in northern India.
13. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. Being one more than one.
21. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
32. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. Used of a single unit or thing.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
5. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
6. A large fleet.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
9. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
10. An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
16. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
18. An enclosed space.
20. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
30. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
34. A French abbot.
36. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. The bill in a restaurant.
44. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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