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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. United States writer (born in 1915).
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A slight amount or degree of difference.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A light touch or stroke.
22. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. Lower in esteem.
46. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
52. Goddess of fate.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A boy or man.
4. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
7. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Extremely pleasing.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. The cry made by sheep.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
32. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
39. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
41. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
44. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
51. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
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