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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. The sign language used in the United States.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
22. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
23. The cry made by sheep.
26. The last (12th) month of the year.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Any cycad of the genus Dioon.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
43. Wild and domestic cattle.
46. A loud harsh or strident noise.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
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1. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
27. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
28. A resource.
29. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
31. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A partly sheltered anchorage.
35. Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
36. Complacently or inanely foolish.
40. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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