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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
10. Any of various units of capacity.
13. Made of or resembling lace.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. State in northeastern India.
20. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
22. Someone who has retired from active working.
24. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
27. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
28. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
36. A flexible container with a single opening.
38. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
41. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
42. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France.
56. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. Type genus of the Nepidae.
60. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
62. A branch of the Tai languages.
63. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
2. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
3. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
4. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
5. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
6. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
7. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
9. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
10. An oil port in southern Iraq.
11. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
12. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
19. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
21. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
23. A doctor's degree in education.
25. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
26. (informal) Exceptionally good.
29. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
30. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
32. English monk and scholar (672-735).
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
35. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
37. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Gull family.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
44. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
46. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
47. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
49. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
50. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
52. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
58. 10 grams.
61. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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