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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
7. Derive or receive pleasure from.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. How long something has existed.
13. Of or being the lowest female voice.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. A city in northern India.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
23. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
24. Dearly loved.
26. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
28. A genus of Ploceidae.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. The second largest city in Tunisia.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
41. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
45. The sixth day of the week.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. Being one more than two.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. A quantity of no importance.
51. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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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. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. South African term for `boss'.
8. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
9. (of mines and mining) Worked from the exposed surface.
10. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
18. A native of ancient Troy.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
31. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
39. Being one more than twelve.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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