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1. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A toilet in England.
12. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
16. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
17. A decree that prohibits something.
18. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. 35th President of the United States.
28. Material used to daub walls.
29. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
32. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
34. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
36. Grind together, of teeth.
40. The sign language used in the United States.
41. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A unit of pressure.
46. (informal) Exceptionally good.
47. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
48. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
49. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
2. The closing section of a musical composition.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
7. A resource.
8. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Obvious and dull.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
20. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. An enclosed space.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
31. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
33. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
35. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
36. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. 10 grams.
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