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1. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
4. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
16. A long-playing phonograph record.
18. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
19. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
20. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
22. A light touch or stroke.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
33. The act of scanning.
35. A state in northwestern North America.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
46. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
54. Tag the base runner to get him out.
57. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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.
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
17. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
21. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. South African term for `boss'.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
28. Extremely pleasing.
31. 16 ounces.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
36. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
40. 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).
42. A deep prolonged loud noise.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. The cry made by sheep.
53. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
55. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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