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1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
11. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
12. Using speech rather than writing.
13. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
14. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
20. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
23. The ending of a series or sequence.
25. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
33. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
49. Wearing or provided with clothing.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
4. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
18. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
24. Informal terms for a mother.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
28. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
32. God of wealth and love.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
38. A city in northern India.
39. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
43. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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