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1. Select as an alternative.
4. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
7. The act of scanning.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. Informal terms for a meal.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. In bed.
25. Common Indian weaverbird.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. 1/10 gram.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
34. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
35. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
46. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
47. Extremely pleasing.
49. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. A quantity of no importance.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
5. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
6. In or of the month preceding the present one.
7. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
9. Make less active or intense.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
33. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A city in northern India.
44. A resource.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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