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1. God of the earth.
4. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
15. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
29. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. 1 species.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
49. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Type genus of the Ranidae.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. Covered with paving material.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. (botany) Especially of leaves.
34. An island of central Hawaii.
35. The beach at a seaside resort.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. How long something has existed.
45. The cry made by sheep.
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