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1. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
4. A Loloish language.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
12. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
13. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
26. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
34. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. Towards the side away from the wind.
50. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
51. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
52. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
15. The cry made by sheep.
19. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
21. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
25. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
29. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
31. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
37. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
40. In bed.
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
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