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1. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
5. The sign language used in the United States.
8. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
11. Employed in accomplishing something.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
31. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
33. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
44. An informal term for a father.
45. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
46. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
2. Earlier a god.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. The capital and largest city of Japan.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
8. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
9. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Unknown god.
22. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
26. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. In operation or operational.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
36. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
37. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A city in the European part of Russia.
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