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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Considerate and solicitous care.
12. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A Russian river.
17. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. Of or relating to the Sikhs or Sikhism.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. By bad luck.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
44. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
48. A rapid bustling commotion.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. American novelist (1909-1955).
51. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. 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.
7. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
8. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. Obvious and dull.
10. Jordan's port.
18. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
30. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
32. A native of ancient Troy.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. A quantity of no importance.
41. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. That is to say.
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