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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A Loloish language.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
24. An accountant certified by the state.
25. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
29. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
32. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
45. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
46. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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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. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
5. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
6. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. An informal conversation.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
26. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
27. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
28. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. In bed.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
42. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
43. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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