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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
11. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
12. 10 grams.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. The highest level or degree attainable.
17. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
24. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
31. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
33. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
34. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. Sour or bitter in taste.
40. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
44. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
3. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
7. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
9. Avatar of Vishnu.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. The month following February and preceding April.
26. United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000).
29. A Mid-Atlantic state.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A large fleet.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A sudden short attack.
39. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
43. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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