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1. Lacking self-confidence.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The sign language used in the United States.
11. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
12. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
16. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
17. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
20. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
33. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
46. A Loloish language.
47. Having leadership guidance.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
3. Not only so, but.
4. Lower in esteem.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
7. Step on it.
8. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
9. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
10. The sound of laughing.
18. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
24. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
25. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. A French abbot.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
38. In bed.
39. A quantity of no importance.
41. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
45. A white trivalent metallic element.
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