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1. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
4. A humorous anecdote or remark.
7. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
13. Something causes misery or death.
14. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
17. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
18. The state capital of Alaska.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. An island of central Hawaii.
22. Extremely pleasing.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. Jordan's port.
30. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. A light touch or stroke.
33. Before noon.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A small vessel for travel on water.
40. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. The act of rising upward into the air.
50. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
4. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
5. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
8. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
9. Squash bugs.
10. A populous province in northeastern China.
15. The quantity contained in a keg.
16. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
29. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
42. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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