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1. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
4. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
9. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
13. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
14. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
18. A quantity of no importance.
19. By bad luck.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
29. Extremely pleasing.
30. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Greek mythology.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
48. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
50. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
51. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
54. Little known Kamarupan languages.
58. Common Indian weaverbird.
61. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
63. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
64. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
3. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
5. A rapid bustling commotion.
6. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
7. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
8. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
9. A decree that prohibits something.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
33. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
35. Gone by.
37. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
43. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
44. Enchanter's nightshade.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Jordan's port.
55. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
56. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
57. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A light touch or stroke.
62. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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