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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. Occurring widely (as to many people).
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
29. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
30. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Type genus of the Bramidae.
35. A light touch or stroke.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A soft silvery metallic element.
41. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Lower in esteem.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. Stalk of a moss capsule.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. Physically and mentally fatigued.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
23. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. Make less active or intense.
35. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Before noon.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. God of the earth.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
51. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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