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1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. Divulge information or secrets.
13. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
17. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
20. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
21. Unknown god.
22. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
23. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
25. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
39. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
40. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
43. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
44. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
49. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A large quantity of written matter.
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
6. A bottle with a stopper.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
9. A genus of Indriidae.
10. A yellow quartz.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. A native of ancient Troy.
31. Lower in esteem.
34. A town in north central Oklahoma.
35. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
37. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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