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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. 1/1000 gram.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. A boy or man.
29. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
31. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
38. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
48. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
2. 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.
3. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. A licensed medical practitioner.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. An informal conversation.
22. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
24. South African term for `boss'.
25. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
27. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
33. Informal terms for a mother.
36. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
37. Greek mythology.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. The bill in a restaurant.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. The airforce of Great Britain.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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