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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
23. A port city in southwestern Iran.
25. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Fallow deer.
30. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. A doctor's degree in education.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
9. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
10. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
16. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
18. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
19. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
21. A light touch or stroke.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A town in central Belgium.
29. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
31. In operation or operational.
32. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
35. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
36. In bed.
38. (British slang) Cafe.
42. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
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