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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
8. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
19. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
21. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
24. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
27. By bad luck.
29. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
31. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. Before noon.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A small vessel for travel on water.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
48. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Take in solid food.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Half the width of an em.
5. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
6. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. Transient cessation of respiration.
10. (of persons) So unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.
20. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
22. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. A state in the eastern United States.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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