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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
7. Informal terms for money.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Informal terms for the mouth.
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. South African term for `boss'.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. An accountant certified by the state.
21. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A deep bow.
32. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. A light touch or stroke.
46. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
48. The airforce of Great Britain.
50. A master's degree in business.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
52. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
53. A decree that prohibits something.
54. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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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. A doctor's degree in music.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
10. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
18. The capital of Eritrea.
20. A genus of Ploceidae.
22. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
23. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. In bed.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. Type genus of the Anatidae.
38. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A state in New England.
49. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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