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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
16. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
17. Squash bugs.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. The face of a timepiece.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
30. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
31. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
33. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
40. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
42. A quantity of no importance.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
47. Speaking a Slavic language.
48. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
49. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
6. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
7. The month following March and preceding May.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
10. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
18. A deep bow.
20. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
24. Be in accord.
26. Make amends for.
27. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
29. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
32. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
33. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
34. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
35. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
40. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Not reflecting light.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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