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1. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A young woman making her debut into society.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
28. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
37. Growing old.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
49. A boy or man.
50. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
51. The basic unit of money in Iran.
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1. An informal term for a father.
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. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Failing to detonate.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. Before noon.
20. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
22. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Fallow deer.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
39. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A form of address for a man.
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