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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A decree that prohibits something.
8. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
11. The eighth month of the civil year.
12. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
13. Fiddler crabs.
14. God of death.
15. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
23. An informal term for a father.
26. The cry made by sheep.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
34. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
36. The eleventh month of the civil year.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
42. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A sudden very loud noise.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A Loloish language.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
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1. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
2. A bluish shade of green.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Wild geese.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. A human limb.
7. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
8. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
9. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Being one more than one hundred.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A radioactive transuranic element.
35. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. A human limb.
37. Capital of Vanuatu.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. (British) Your grandmother.
44. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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