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1. Give a nickname to.
4. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
8. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
17. The bill in a restaurant.
18. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Not only so, but.
41. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
45. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
46. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
51. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
7. An associate degree in applied science.
8. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
30. The residue that remains when something is burned.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
35. Affect with wonder.
36. Of or relating to or containing barium.
38. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
39. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
43. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
44. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
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