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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
11. An accidental happening.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. 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.
14. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A primeval personification of air and breath.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
19. The bill in a restaurant.
21. Being one more than ten.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
31. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
33. Divulge information or secrets.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
37. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
40. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A bachelor's degree in theology.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. 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.
51. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. A thrusting blow with a knife.
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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. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. The event of dying or departure from life.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
9. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
10. God of fire.
18. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
23. A formal association of people with similar interests.
25. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
35. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
47. Take in solid food.
48. (combining form) Former.
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