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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
32. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
45. Adult female chicken.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
49. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A bachelor's degree in science.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
19. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
21. 1 species.
22. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
33. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
34. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. In bed.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
46. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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