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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. The cry made by sheep.
7. Two items of the same kind.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. In bed.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
33. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
34. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
43. Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
52. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
8. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
9. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
10. An informal term for a father.
16. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. A motley assortment of things.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
30. Flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
35. Of a pale purple color.
36. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
42. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
44. Extremely pleasing.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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