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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. The basic unit of money in Myanmar.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
12. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. Cry plaintively.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
27. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. The month following March and preceding May.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
51. (informal) Very tired.
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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
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. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A state in the western United States.
22. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
23. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
25. One million periods per second.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A city in northern India.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. A humorous anecdote or remark.
44. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
48. A Russian river.
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