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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
15. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. Obvious and dull.
21. A tight-fitting headdress.
28. Jordan's port.
30. An iconic mental representation.
32. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
46. Goddess of fate.
47. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
48. indicate by signs.
49. The cry made by sheep.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A primeval personification of air and breath.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The products of human creativity.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. By bad luck.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A state in northwestern North America.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
29. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
31. A master's degree in fine arts.
34. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
37. Material used to daub walls.
38. A city in northern India.
39. A quantity of no importance.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
44. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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