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1. The act of losing.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
12. A boy or man.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
15. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
17. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
18. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
19. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
39. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
48. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. The sacred city of Lamaism.
2. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
5. By bad luck.
6. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. The content of cognition.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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.
16. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
20. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
23. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
26. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
27. An enclosed space.
29. (British) A member of the military police.
31. A grant made by a law court.
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
44. The airforce of Great Britain.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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