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1. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
4. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. A coffin along with its stand.
15. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. God of wealth and love.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Any plant of the genus Erica.
37. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. (informal) Exceptionally good.
43. Of southern Europe.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
49. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
50. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
51. A Loloish language.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Have a certain weight.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
7. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. Fallow deer.
10. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
21. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
22. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. A French abbot.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
35. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
36. Make less active or intense.
38. A small nail.
39. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
40. Noisy talk.
41. That is to say.
44. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
45. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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