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1. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
4. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
13. An accidental happening.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
16. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
18. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
20. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
21. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
23. God of fire.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. An audiotape recording of sound.
39. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
40. The face of a timepiece.
41. The residue that remains when something is burned.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
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1. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
2. A twisting squeeze.
3. Strong and sharp.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
8. An informal conversation.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. The complete duration of something.
15. Before noon.
17. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
19. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
22. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
28. Lower in esteem.
29. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
31. In bed.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A doctor's degree in education.
37. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
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