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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 sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. A quantity of no importance.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
18. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
24. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
32. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
41. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
45. Common Indian weaverbird.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
54. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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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. Extremely pleasing.
6. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. A Mid-Atlantic state.
26. An enclosed space.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
41. A Mid-Atlantic state.
42. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. Noisy talk.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
52. A bachelor's degree in religion.
53. A Russian river.
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