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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A boy or man.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
22. A state in northwestern North America.
24. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
26. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
30. A state in New England.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. (informal) Exceptionally good.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. (Irish) The sea personified.
45. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
51. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
52. The last (12th) month of the year.
53. Divulge information or secrets.
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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. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
6. The content of cognition.
7. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
35. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
36. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
46. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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