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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. An accidental happening.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
15. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
16. Informal terms for a mother.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
22. A master's degree in business.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
30. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
33. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. A Russian river.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
52. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
53. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
54. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
55. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
56. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. The act of scanning.
18. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. Any plant of the genus Erica.
23. By bad luck.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
29. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
36. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. 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.
42. In bed.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. Not in good physical or mental health.
48. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
51. Informal terms for a mother.
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