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1. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Water frozen in the solid state.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
24. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
39. An enclosed space.
42. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. A Loloish language.
47. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
5. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. An informal term for a father.
19. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
29. (botany) Especially of leaves.
31. Lower in esteem.
32. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
36. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. A branch of the Tai languages.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
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