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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
13. An audiotape recording of sound.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
16. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
17. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
20. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
23. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
31. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
38. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
45. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
48. By bad luck.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Before noon.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
6. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
10. A state in the western United States.
18. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. In bed.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. A branch of the Tai languages.
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
30. The superior of a group of nuns.
32. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
39. Not reflecting light.
40. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. A state of southwestern India.
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