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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
5. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
7. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
14. Have confidence or faith in.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. An associate degree in applied science.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
30. Any high mountain.
33. The cry made by sheep.
37. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
43. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
44. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
49. In bed.
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1. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A deep bow.
4. Make amends for.
5. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
6. A flexible container with a single opening.
7. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
8. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
16. Jordan's port.
19. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
31. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
32. The beach at a seaside resort.
33. Make amends for.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. Lower in esteem.
36. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
41. (British) Your grandmother.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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