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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. An enclosed space.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A genus of Mustelidae.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Remaining after all deductions.
16. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A state in midwestern United States.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. Excessively fat.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
41. A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.
42. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
44. An honorary law degree.
46. An informal term for a father.
47. The last (12th) month of the year.
48. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
49. Chief port of Yemen.
50. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. A student who studies excessively.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. How long something has existed.
6. A positively charged atom.
7. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
34. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
35. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
36. (Judaism) The ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover.
37. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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