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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
7. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A small island.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
16. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
20. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
21. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. (British) A form of football played with an oval ball.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
29. A female domestic.
30. A large fleet.
33. Anything that serves as an enticement.
34. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
39. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
42. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
43. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
45. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
46. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
47. Divulge information or secrets.
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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. Extremely pleasing.
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
7. Long and light rowing boat.
8. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
18. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
22. Two items of the same kind.
23. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
32. A liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions.
35. Give over.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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