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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. An accountant certified by the state.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
15. Deciduous shrub of North America.
16. Inquire about.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. Find repugnant.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
28. An associate degree in applied science.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. (informal) Exceptionally good.
37. A resource.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
42. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
45. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
46. Marked by the reception of pay.
47. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
3. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment).
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
21. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
22. A decree that prohibits something.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
30. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
33. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
34. The capital of Morocco.
36. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
37. A doctor's degree in religion.
38. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
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