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1. A French abbot.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
29. Advanced in years.
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
47. 10 grams.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
6. A city in northern India.
7. A state of southwestern India.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. Informal terms for a mother.
20. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
23. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
24. An accidental happening.
25. An informal term for a father.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
36. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
38. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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