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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. A slender double-reed instrument.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. An accidental happening.
12. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
15. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
26. A town in central Belgium.
30. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
32. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
33. A sudden short attack.
34. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. A Loloish language.
48. Having leadership guidance.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
7. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. A Russian river.
28. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
29. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
39. In bed.
40. A quantity of no importance.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
44. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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