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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
8. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
16. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
26. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. A telegram sent abroad.
35. The eleventh month of the civil year.
36. A bachelor's degree in theology.
38. An associate degree in applied science.
39. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
41. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
43. Top part of an apron.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
48. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
49. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
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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 Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. Of or like a cecum.
7. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
8. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
9. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
10. An informal term for a father.
18. An oil port in southern Iraq.
19. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A means of serving.
31. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
32. Obvious and dull.
33. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
34. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
37. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
44. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
45. A person forced to flee from home or country.
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