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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
5. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
15. Noisy talk.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
37. Cut the head of.
42. A doctor's degree in education.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A container.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. A doctor's degree in education.
51. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
5. Common Indian weaverbird.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. Inquire about.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A town in north central Oklahoma.
39. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A notable achievement.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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