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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Fallow deer.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. Refuse to acknowledge.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. An atom having a valence of one.
32. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
39. A unit of pressure.
42. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
43. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
44. Using speech rather than writing.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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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. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. A bottle with a stopper.
6. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. The food served and eaten at one time.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Causing fear or dread or terror.
18. Away from the mouth or oral region.
19. Jordan's port.
20. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
27. A city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso.
30. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
31. A town in southwestern Idaho.
33. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
35. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
36. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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