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1. The month following March and preceding May.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
20. With no effort to conceal.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A French abbot.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Before noon.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
47. A master's degree in education.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A Loloish language.
2. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A Russian river.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. Jordan's port.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
38. In bed.
39. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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