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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
11. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A slight amount or degree of difference.
14. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
16. Lower in esteem.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
20. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
21. Offering fun and gaiety.
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. At or constituting a border or edge.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
3. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
6. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
8. A state in the western United States.
9. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
10. Chief port of Yemen.
15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. The sixth month of the civil year.
25. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
34. A light touch or stroke.
36. Praise, glorify, or honor.
37. An association of criminals.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. South African term for `boss'.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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