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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
11. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
13. Informal terms for a mother.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. Ruffed grouse.
20. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
21. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
22. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A master's degree in fine arts.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
45. (Babylonian) The sky god.
48. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
49. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. The closing section of a musical composition.
51. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
2. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
3. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
10. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
18. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
28. Before noon.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
40. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
42. The month following July and preceding September.
43. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
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