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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. A vigorous blow.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
16. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
17. Jordan's port.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Toward the mouth or oral region.
27. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
31. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
34. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
35. (informal) Of the highest quality.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
7. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
8. 1/1000 gram.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
21. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
28. Water frozen in the solid state.
29. A state in southeastern United States.
30. Unknown god.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Divulge information or secrets.
42. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
45. The sound made by a gentle blow.
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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