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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
10. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
14. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
15. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
16. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
17. An expression of greeting.
18. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
19. A Mid-Atlantic state.
20. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
22. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
29. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934).
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
42. Being one more than forty.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. One of the common people.
47. An area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming).
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. An informal term for a father.
56. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
61. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
62. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
63. Declare untrue.
64. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. A Russian river.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.
5. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
10. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
11. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
12. The capital of Western Samoa.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
24. A boy or man.
25. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
28. The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet.
30. A mythical Greek hero.
31. A statute in draft before it becomes law.
32. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
34. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
37. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
39. A native of ancient Troy.
40. The cry made by sheep.
44. Permitting leaks or leakage.
46. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
47. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
48. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
49. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
50. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
52. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
53. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
58. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
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