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1. An audiotape recording of sound.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. A Loloish language.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
17. The month following March and preceding May.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. A Loloish language.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A Nilotic language.
35. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. The cry made by sheep.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Type genus of the Amiidae.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
52. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
7. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
10. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Unknown god.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. Before noon.
30. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. Informal terms for a mother.
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