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1. Take in solid food.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. A small piece of cloth.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
24. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
25. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
43. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
47. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
49. Using speech rather than writing.
50. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
9. Jordan's port.
10. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. Top part of an apron.
22. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. The unit of frequency.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
33. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
37. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
38. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. A small piece of cloth.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
44. The bill in a restaurant.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
47. The airforce of Great Britain.
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