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1. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
5. 1/10 gram.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
17. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
25. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
28. Ground snakes.
31. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
34. A light touch or stroke.
37. By bad luck.
38. The state of existing and being localized in space.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
45. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
46. How long something has existed.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
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1. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
2. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
3. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
4. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. 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.
9. Lie adjacent to another.
10. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
19. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
26. Late time of life.
29. Smeared thickly.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
32. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
33. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
36. City in Sudan.
39. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
40. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
41. And nothing more.
42. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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