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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. How long something has existed.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
22. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
28. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
33. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A state in midwestern United States.
39. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
46. Top part of an apron.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
49. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. Extremely pleasing.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
6. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
10. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. Gone by.
20. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
21. In bed.
23. Being five more than one hundred.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
32. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A city in central New York.
37. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
38. Negation of a word or group of words.
41. Any of various units of capacity.
42. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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