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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A compact mass.
8. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Type genus of the Nepidae.
13. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
14. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
15. An endorsement.
16. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
21. Step on it.
23. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
24. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A city of central China.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. Russian country house.
35. Before noon.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. Not divisible by two.
43. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
50. In bed.
51. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
52. A yearning for something or to do something.
53. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A local computer network for communication between computers.
4. Relating to or containing gnomes.
5. The basic unit of money in Albania.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
8. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
9. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
10. The place where some action occurs.
18. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
20. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
22. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. A can for storing tea.
35. The basic unit of money in Albania.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. An associate degree in nursing.
41. A small amount of residue.
42. An informal term for a father.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
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