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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
12. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
13. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
32. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
33. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
34. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
38. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
43. The capital of Western Samoa.
45. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
47. British politician (1788-1850).
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. God of the earth.
52. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
2. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
3. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
4. The act of scanning.
5. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. A master's degree in education.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
26. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. Half the width of an em.
31. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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