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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
13. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
16. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. French novelist.
21. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
24. A motley assortment of things.
27. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. 10 grams.
49. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
52. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
53. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
54. In bed.
55. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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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. A partially opened flower.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Found along western Atlantic coast.
7. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
8. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
9. The content of cognition.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A light touch or stroke.
20. 1 species.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. Before noon.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
44. A Scottish word.
45. A primeval personification of air and breath.
46. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
48. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
50. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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