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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
7. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Seed of a pea plant.
13. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
16. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Convert ordinary language into code.
21. An opening that permits escape or release.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A Russian river.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
31. Jordan's port.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A state in the eastern United States.
36. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
38. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
41. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
45. In a competent capable manner.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
50. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A state in southeastern United States.
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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. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
7. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
8. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
9. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
10. A medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
33. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
40. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
42. Any high mountain.
43. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Water frozen in the solid state.
47. An informal term for a father.
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