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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
8. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. How long something has existed.
13. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
14. Using speech rather than writing.
15. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. Artificial and inferior.
19. Fallow deer.
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
46. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A slender double-reed instrument.
2. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
3. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Call upon in supplication.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
10. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
21. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A decree that prohibits something.
26. An accountant certified by the state.
29. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
34. Obvious and dull.
35. Jordan's port.
37. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. The month following March and preceding May.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
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