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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. The cry made by sheep.
7. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
14. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
15. Not only so, but.
16. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
17. In bed.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. 35th President of the United States.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
39. 16 ounces.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A byproduct of inflammation.
45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
48. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
49. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
50. An accidental happening.
51. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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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. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
4. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
5. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
6. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
7. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
8. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
9. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
10. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
18. 1/10 gram.
20. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. The residue that remains when something is burned.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
32. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
36. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
37. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
43. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
44. A transuranic element.
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