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1. Of southern Europe.
4. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
7. The act of scanning.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
15. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
22. The eleventh month of the civil year.
23. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
24. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
28. Being one more than fifty.
29. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
35. Before noon.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
39. Aimlessly drifting.
43. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
52. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
4. A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California.
5. Speaking a Slavic language.
6. Willing to face danger.
7. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
9. Make less active or intense.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
16. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
20. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
37. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
42. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
45. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
46. A state in New England.
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