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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
16. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. A Loloish language.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. Take in solid food.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. (informal) Of the highest quality.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. The bill in a restaurant.
49. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
51. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
53. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
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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. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
8. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
9. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
19. Extremely pleasing.
21. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
23. In bed.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Unknown god.
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Derive or receive pleasure from.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Water frozen in the solid state.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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