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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Something that remunerates.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Informal terms for a mother.
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
33. In bed.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
43. An informal term for a father.
46. A port in southwestern Scotland.
48. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. In or of the month preceding the present one.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
51. The cry made by sheep.
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1. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. How long something has existed.
7. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
8. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. The eighth month of the civil year.
20. Covered with paving material.
21. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
22. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
25. A decree that prohibits something.
27. A light touch or stroke.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
42. The products of human creativity.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
45. A person's brother or sister.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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