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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Being four more than fifty.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
16. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
26. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
34. A state in New England.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Oil palms.
42. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Cause annoyance in.
48. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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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. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
5. An account describing incidents or events.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
9. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
10. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
18. An enclosed space.
19. A light touch or stroke.
21. A young woman making her debut into society.
24. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
25. A radioactive transuranic element.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
36. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
37. A city of central China.
38. (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.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. The eleventh month of the civil year.
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