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1. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4. A decree that prohibits something.
7. An informal term for a father.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
14. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. Before noon.
24. The second largest city in Tunisia.
25. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. The capital of Croatia.
31. Sour or bitter in taste.
34. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
35. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. In bed.
42. A state of southwestern India.
45. A master's degree in library science.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
49. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
50. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
2. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
3. 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.
4. Obvious and dull.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
7. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
10. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
18. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A man who is a stupid fool.
26. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. A telegram sent abroad.
33. Eliminate from the body.
37. A city in northern India.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. South African term for `boss'.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
46. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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