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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. In bed.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
16. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Lower in esteem.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. An accidental happening.
28. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
30. The capital of Croatia.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
35. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. An informal term for a father.
46. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A light touch or stroke.
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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. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
9. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
10. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
18. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
20. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere v 1.
21. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Extremely pleasing.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
43. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
44. The money risked on a gamble.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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