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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
29. Obvious and dull.
32. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
33. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. The month following February and preceding April.
46. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
49. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
50. A city in northwestern Syria.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. 1/1000 gram.
5. The month following July and preceding September.
6. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
36. Made of fir or pine.
38. A Hindu prince or king in India.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
43. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
45. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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