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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A beckoning gesture.
17. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
32. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
37. Squash bugs.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. In or of the present month.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. A young woman making her debut into society.
5. Of or relating to or involving an area.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. An uproarious party.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. By bad luck.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
31. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
33. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
34. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. A wound resulting from biting.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
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