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1. A small island.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
15. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
30. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
33. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
34. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
40. Jordan's port.
43. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. Among the largest bony fish.
52. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
5. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
6. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
7. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
24. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. The cry made by sheep.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. Very slow in tempo and broad in manner n.
36. (Irish) The sea personified.
37. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. In bed.
44. Not in good physical or mental health.
45. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. A flexible container with a single opening.
50. A state in southeastern United States.
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