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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. A light touch or stroke.
14. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. The capital and largest city of Poland.
19. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
21. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
25. The longest division of geological time.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A person forced to flee from home or country.
33. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
46. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
47. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. The sixth month of the civil year.
50. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
51. God of the earth.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
4. Type genus of the Majidae.
5. (Welsh myth) The other world.
6. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
7. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
10. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
18. Leather with a napped surface.
20. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A republic in central Africa.
31. A motley assortment of things.
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Wearing or provided with clothing.
37. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
43. A state in midwestern United States.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
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