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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Squash bugs.
20. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
30. A nation in northern North America.
32. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
34. A light touch or stroke.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
45. 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.
46. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
49. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
50. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
4. A quantity of no importance.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
19. An informal conversation.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
27. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
28. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
29. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
42. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
43. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
44. Call upon in supplication.
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