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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. Extremely pleasing.
26. A large fleet.
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. Material used to daub walls.
35. A light touch or stroke.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A telegram sent abroad.
45. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
49. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. A city in northern India.
53. Being two more than fifty.
54. A city in north central Morocco.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
57. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
23. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. 1/1000 gram.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. Informal terms for a mother.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. The cry made by sheep.
37. An audiotape recording of sound.
39. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
40. South African term for `boss'.
42. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
43. Set down according to a plan.
44. English essayist (1775-1834).
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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