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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Wildly disordered.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
28. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Black tropical American cuckoo.
33. A major god.
36. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
39. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
44. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
46. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
47. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
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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. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Fallow deer.
7. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
8. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
18. A light touch or stroke.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A vigorous blow.
24. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
31. A bachelor's degree in theology.
34. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
35. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Enlarged prostate.
42. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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