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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. South African term for `boss'.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. Informal terms for the mouth.
14. An affirmative.
15. Lie adjacent to another.
16. Adult female chicken.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Toward the mouth or oral region.
23. The superior of a group of nuns.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
27. Very dark black.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. 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.
41. The products of human creativity.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
48. Top part of an apron.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. The boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
5. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
6. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
7. The seventh and last day of the week.
8. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. Having an owner.
18. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
19. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. A Russian river.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Of or relating to near the ear.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. A French abbot.
39. Anything that serves as an enticement.
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
43. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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