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1. A small island.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
24. Made of fir or pine.
27. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A light touch or stroke.
43. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910).
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
48. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. God of wealth and love.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
32. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. Not reflecting light.
35. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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