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1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
4. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Any of various units of capacity.
26. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
33. An associate degree in applied science.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
3. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
5. A boy or man.
6. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
7. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A resource.
32. A master's degree in business.
36. 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.
37. An elaborate song for solo voice.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
40. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Extremely pleasing.
46. 10 grams.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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