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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A quantity of no importance.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
28. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
32. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An enclosed space.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
51. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
54. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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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. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A decree that prohibits something.
8. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
18. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. Wool of the alpaca.
36. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
37. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
40. Related to or located at the back.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
44. An accountant certified by the state.
45. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
47. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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