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1. A small island.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
15. How long something has existed.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. Covered with scabs.
27. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
31. A decree that prohibits something.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
34. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Unknown god.
38. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
39. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
46. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. (Sumerian) Sun god.
54. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
55. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
7. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
19. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
21. Obvious and dull.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Noisy talk.
28. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
29. Being nine more than forty.
30. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
41. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. A partially opened flower.
51. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
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