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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. A city of central China.
11. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
13. A city in northern India.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. A bachelor's degree in theology.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
31. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
33. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. British informal term.
44. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A partially opened flower.
4. A humming noise.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
6. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
7. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. An awkward stupid person.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
28. A decree that prohibits something.
29. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. God of love and erotic desire.
36. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
37. In bed.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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