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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
12. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
13. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
16. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
17. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
18. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
23. A ribbon used as a decoration.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
29. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
33. The sacred city of Lamaism.
37. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. Offering fun and gaiety.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
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1. An unforeseen obstacle.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
6. Humble request for help.
7. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
8. A bachelor's degree in science.
9. Jordan's port.
10. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
19. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
20. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
21. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Being nine more than ninety.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
32. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.
35. A branch of the Tai languages.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. An informal term for a father.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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