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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A quantity of no importance.
12. A light touch or stroke.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
18. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. The capital of Croatia.
28. A bottle with a stopper.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
44. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. Gone by.
48. Divulge information or secrets.
49. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
3. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A telegram sent abroad.
34. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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