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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. A city in northern India.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
15. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
16. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
17. Type genus of the Percidae.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
25. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. Lacking excess flesh.
30. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
42. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. A fraudulent business scheme.
50. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. Type genus of the Majidae.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. A form of address for a man.
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
7. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
8. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
19. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. That is to say.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. God of love and erotic desire.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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