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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. 10 grams.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
23. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Lower in esteem.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Spread or daub over.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. Water frozen in the solid state.
48. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
49. Characteristic of a mob.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. A flexible container with a single opening.
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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. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
5. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. A colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. (informal) Roused to anger.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
36. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
40. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
41. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
43. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
44. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
45. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
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