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1. A French abbot.
5. A radioactive transuranic element.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A telephone connection.
12. Being one more than one.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
16. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
17. Take in solid food.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
24. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
27. A genus of Indriidae.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. A person forced to flee from home or country.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. The highest level or degree attainable.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Cry plaintively.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
6. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
10. In bed.
15. A master's degree in fine arts.
19. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. A state in New England.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Being nine more than ninety.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
37. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
46. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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