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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. A quantity of no importance.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A blank gap or missing part.
17. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
18. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
20. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
30. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
33. The capital of Croatia.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
37. Extremely pleasing.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. By bad luck.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. The emotion of hate.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. A master's degree in business.
53. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
54. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
55. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
3. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
6. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
9. Obvious and dull.
10. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
16. A radioactive transuranic element.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. Advanced in years.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. South African term for `boss'.
45. Fasten by sewing.
47. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
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