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1. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. (informal) Roused to anger.
11. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. In bed.
16. God of wealth and love.
18. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. Considerate and solicitous care.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
28. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
40. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. English essayist (1775-1834).
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
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1. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
2. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
3. The ending of a series or sequence.
4. A state in north central United States.
5. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
9. Second brightest star in Perseus.
10. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
15. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
31. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
33. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
35. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A shape that sags.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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