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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
29. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
52. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
4. An enclosed space.
5. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
6. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
7. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. By bad luck.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. The cry made by sheep.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. Greek mythology.
34. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
35. Sour or bitter in taste.
36. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. An informal term for a father.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. A boy or man.
47. A doctor's degree in religion.
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