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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. A form of address for a man.
15. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
17. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
18. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
32. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
50. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
51. A master's degree in business.
52. Socially incorrect in behavior.
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
54. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
2. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
3. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
33. Rapid and indistinct speech.
34. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
39. A very light brown.
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. South African term for `boss'.
45. A resource.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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