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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. In bed.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. The products of human creativity.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. A French abbot.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
25. A master's degree in business.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. Advanced in years.
35. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
41. Not open or public.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. 10 grams.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
29. The cry made by sheep.
32. An awkward stupid person.
34. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
36. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A city in central New York.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. The site of an archeological exploration.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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