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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
7. Petty quarrel.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
14. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
23. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
26. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
28. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
30. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. Before noon.
34. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A French abbot.
3. Fallow deer.
4. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. The quantity contained in a keg.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
9. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
10. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
18. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
21. A professional cook.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
27. Not only so, but.
29. A light touch or stroke.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
36. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
37. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A decree that prohibits something.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
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