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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
23. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
26. The last (12th) month of the year.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
35. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
39. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. A branch of the Tai languages.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. (Irish) The sea personified.
50. Tag the base runner to get him out.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. In or of the month preceding the present one.
7. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Half the width of an em.
25. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
31. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
33. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A genus of Lamnidae.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Jordan's port.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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