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1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
11. An accidental happening.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
14. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
15. A genus of Ploceidae.
17. A state in east central United States.
18. Not only so, but.
19. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
21. The sign language used in the United States.
24. A three-tone Chadic language.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. How long something has existed.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
44. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
47. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
48. (informal) Exceptionally good.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
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1. African mahogany trees.
2. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
3. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
4. A tight-fitting headdress.
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
8. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
9. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
10. An Italian woman of rank.
16. A person forced to flee from home or country.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
23. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
25. A light touch or stroke.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A German man.
37. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
38. A productive insight.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A flexible container with a single opening.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
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