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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
13. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
14. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. 1/1000 gram.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
28. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
32. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
34. A state in northwestern North America.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
51. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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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. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
8. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
19. A fraudulent business scheme.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
23. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
24. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
38. South African term for `boss'.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
43. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
45. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
46. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. A unit of pressure.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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