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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Framework for holding objects.
8. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
16. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
17. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Having leadership guidance.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. The lowest brass wind instrument.
48. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Big-eyed scad.
3. Set down according to a plan.
4. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. Range of what one can know or understand.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat.
18. An honorary arts degree.
19. A humorous anecdote or remark.
23. God of wealth and love.
24. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
25. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
28. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
29. Filled with fear or apprehension.
33. In bed.
34. The state of owing money.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. An informal term for a father.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. A doctor's degree in religion.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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