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Semi-arid belt of West Africa where the pearl-type grain was domesticated
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SAHEL - 2 Down
Legendary emperor to whom Chinese myth credits the grain
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SHENNONG - 3 Across
Site in northern China with some of the earliest evidence of millet farming
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CISHAN - 4 Down
US relative in the millet grasses, studied as a source of cellulosic ethanol
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SWITCHGRASS - 5 Down
Warm fermented drink of the Himalayas
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TONGBA - 6 Across
C-glycosylflavone that can hinder the body's uptake of iodine
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VITEXIN - 7 Down
Qinghai site where 4,000-year-old noodles, said to be millet, were found
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LAJIA - 8 Down
Chinese spirit distilled mainly from sorghum
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BAIJIU - 9 Across
Low-alcohol fermented drink of the Balkans, Turkey and Central Asia
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BOZA - 10 Across
Variety bred in India from a West African landrace, released in Namibia in 1990
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OKASHANA - 11 Across
Swelling linked to very millet-heavy diets in parts of rural Africa and Asia
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GOITRE - 12 Across
Porridge that was a staple of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in Ukraine
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KULISH - 12 Down
Very drought-resistant minor kind that grows even on poor soils
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KODO - 13 Across
Traditional beer of West Africa made from this grain
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DOLO