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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A humorous anecdote or remark.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
13. Fiddler crabs.
14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
16. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
23. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. Agitation resulting from active worry.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. How long something has existed.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. By bad luck.
52. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
9. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
15. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. Little known Kamarupan languages.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. The cry made by sheep.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A city in central New York.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
40. South African term for `boss'.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
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