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1. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
4. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
15. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. The address where a person lives.
20. The cry made by sheep.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
26. Being nine more than ninety.
30. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
32. A telegram sent abroad.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A fraudulent business scheme.
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
52. 10 grams.
53. Type genus of the Majidae.
54. A master's degree in fine arts.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. Jordan's port.
3. 1/10 gram.
4. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
7. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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.
18. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
19. An informal term for a father.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. God of love and erotic desire.
40. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
41. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. A small piece of cloth.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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