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1. Take in solid food.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
7. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
13. Type genus of the Majidae.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. Divulge information or secrets.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A periodic paperback publication.
21. A state in midwestern United States.
24. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. In bed.
29. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A light touch or stroke.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
47. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
7. Before noon.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. A genus of Platalea.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
16. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
26. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. Slightly open.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. Before noon.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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