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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia.
12. A decree that prohibits something.
15. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
16. On or of upper floors of a building.
17. How long something has existed.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Emotionally affected.
20. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
21. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
23. An expression of greeting.
24. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. The basic unit of money in Iran.
35. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
39. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
41. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
44. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
45. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
51. A bar of sand.
53. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
55. A Loloish language.
56. Carry out or participate in an activity.
57. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal.
58. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
63. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
65. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
68. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
72. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
76. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
77. African antelopes.
81. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
82. A beautiful and graceful girl.
83. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
84. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
85. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
86. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
87. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
2. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
3. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
4. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
5. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
6. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
7. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
8. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
9. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
10. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. God of fire.
14. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
27. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
32. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
33. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
34. A small nail.
36. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
37. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
38. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
42. A fraudulent business scheme.
43. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
50. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
52. A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
54. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. Jordan's port.
69. In bed.
70. A student who studies excessively.
71. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
73. The female reproductive cell.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
75. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
78. The habitation of wild animals.
79. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
80. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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