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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. Informal terms for the mouth.
15. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
42. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
46. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
48. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
49. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
50. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
52. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
55. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
4. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. How long something has existed.
22. A master's degree in business.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. A light touch or stroke.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
40. In bed.
41. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. A very light brown.
44. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. A slight amount or degree of difference.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. A person forced to flee from home or country.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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