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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. South African term for `boss'.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
26. A slender double-reed instrument.
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. A city in the European part of Russia.
46. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
48. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. Divulge information or secrets.
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1. Obvious and dull.
2. Jordan's port.
3. Give a nickname to.
4. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
5. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
6. (Welsh myth) The other world.
7. Stalk of a moss capsule.
8. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
19. Chief of the Vanir.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. Used of a single unit or thing.
27. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
28. A Russian river.
29. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
31. Offering fun and gaiety.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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