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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A large number or amount.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
16. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
17. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
20. A decree that prohibits something.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
26. Knock unconscious or senseless.
28. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
36. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
47. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
48. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
49. God of the underworld.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
3. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
6. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
7. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
23. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
24. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
25. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
27. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
30. An honorary degree in science.
32. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
34. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
35. Excessively fat.
37. In bed.
38. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
39. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
40. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
45. Tag the base runner to get him out.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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