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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A fit of shivering.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Jordan's port.
27. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Unknown god.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
43. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
44. In bed.
46. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. The basic unit of money in Albania.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
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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. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
7. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
26. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
32. Greek mythology.
34. A French abbot.
35. Related to or located at the back.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
38. The longest division of geological time.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
45. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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