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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. In bed.
8. The sign language used in the United States.
11. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
12. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. A port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A building where prostitutes are available.
27. Squash bugs.
31. Top part of an apron.
32. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. The residue that remains when something is burned.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
2. Denuded of leaves.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
15. A city of central China.
19. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
20. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
40. A vigorous blow.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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