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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
8. A unit of pain intensity.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
16. (British) Your grandmother.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
25. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
36. A light touch or stroke.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. A byproduct of inflammation.
50. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
53. A flexible container with a single opening.
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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. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
5. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
6. Informal terms for a mother.
7. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
8. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
9. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
10. Of a quality, as in.
18. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
20. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
42. Highly excited.
44. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
46. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
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