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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. God of the earth.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Slightly open.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A state in midwestern United States.
23. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
24. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
25. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
26. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
44. Type genus of the Majidae.
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
48. A decree that prohibits something.
49. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
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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. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
5. A genus of Platalea.
6. 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.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924).
9. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
10. A name given to a product or service.
18. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
20. Regional and archaic.
21. Unknown god.
22. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. The capital of Morocco.
31. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. Before noon.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
41. Tag the base runner to get him out.
42. A master's degree in business.
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