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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. An affirmative.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. Firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.
27. A populous province in northeastern China.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Before noon.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. The cry made by sheep.
46. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. A three-tone Chadic language.
51. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
52. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A boy or man.
5. Jordan's port.
6. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A partially opened flower.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
33. Extremely pleasing.
34. A telegram sent abroad.
35. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
36. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
37. Lower in esteem.
39. A feeling of intense anger.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
46. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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