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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A boy or man.
16. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
17. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. Either extremity of something that has length.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
26. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
30. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
32. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
33. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
35. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
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1. Make less active or intense.
2. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
3. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. By bad luck.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. Jordan's port.
7. A partially opened flower.
8. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
9. English essayist (1775-1834).
10. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
19. Obvious and dull.
21. A light touch or stroke.
24. A Loloish language.
25. Being one more than one hundred.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
31. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
34. Extremely pleasing.
36. In bed.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. Divulge information or secrets.
42. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
43. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
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