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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. (informal) Roused to anger.
11. Considerate and solicitous care.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. By bad luck.
16. An indication of approved or superior status.
17. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
20. 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.
24. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Characteristic of a mob.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. A quantity of no importance.
41. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
44. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
45. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
47. The quantity contained in a keg.
48. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
49. Tag the base runner to get him out.
50. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. Again but in a new or different way.
10. The specified day of the month.
15. Wood of a sumac.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. 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.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
33. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
34. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
35. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
37. Serving as or forming a base.
40. An informal term for a father.
42. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
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