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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. The seventh and last day of the week.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
16. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
21. In bed.
25. Jordan's port.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
36. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. A doctor's degree in theology.
49. A French abbot.
50. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. On or toward the lee.
10. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
17. A genus of Pyralidae.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. The cry made by sheep.
23. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
24. Extremely pleasing.
26. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
29. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An enclosed space.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. Russian country house.
37. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
38. A student who studies excessively.
42. Tag the base runner to get him out.
43. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A state in the eastern United States.
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