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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
11. An accidental happening.
12. A cgs unit of work or energy.
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. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
21. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
41. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
45. Serving as or forming a base.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. Type genus of the Anatidae.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
50. Extremely pleasing.
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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. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
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. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
9. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
10. God of fire.
18. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
23. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. A flexible container with a single opening.
33. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
34. Squash bugs.
37. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. An awkward stupid person.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
44. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
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