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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
15. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
41. An enclosed space.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
49. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
6. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
19. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
27. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
43. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
44. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
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