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1. An informal term for a father.
4. The sixth month of the civil year.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A state in northwestern North America.
39. A meeting of spiritualists.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
44. The handle of a sword or dagger.
46. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
47. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. Fallow deer.
51. Tag the base runner to get him out.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. Before noon.
5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
8. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
9. Type genus of the Anatidae.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. Serving as or forming a base.
36. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Jordan's port.
40. A genus of Mustelidae.
41. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
42. Very dark black.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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