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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. An uproarious party.
7. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
13. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
14. God of death.
15. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
16. A small island.
17. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. (combining form) Former.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
34. A Russian river.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. The square of a body of any size of type.
40. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
42. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. Noisy talk.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
2. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
9. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
10. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
19. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Covered with scabs.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
38. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
41. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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