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1. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Using speech rather than writing.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. A state in midwestern United States.
18. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
27. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. The ohmic resistance of a conductor.
35. How long something has existed.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Offering fun and gaiety.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
49. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
50. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
51. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
2. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
3. Take in solid food.
4. Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
5. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
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.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
25. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
34. A master's degree in fine arts.
37. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. An informal debt instrument.
48. A doctor's degree in religion.
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