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1. How long something has existed.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
11. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
12. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
13. Something that remunerates.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Taking place over public roads.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
22. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. Indigo bush.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. In bed.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
47. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
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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. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
5. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
8. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. The eighth month of the civil year.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. Covered with paving material.
21. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
23. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
25. A light touch or stroke.
27. A local computer network for communication between computers.
28. A sock knitted or woven with a diamond-shaped pattern.
31. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
34. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
41. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
42. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. A Russian river.
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