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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
12. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
33. A master's degree in business.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
49. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. An informal conversation.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. 1/10 gram.
24. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
34. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
37. A characteristic sound.
39. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Fallow deer.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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