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1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
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 rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A port city in southwestern Iran.
19. Unknown god.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
31. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
34. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
35. Type genus of the Amiidae.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. By bad luck.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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1. (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
4. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
5. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. A genus of Platalea.
20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
23. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
25. Fallow deer.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
32. A ribbon used as a decoration.
33. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
46. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. Being one more than one.
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