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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Loose or flaccid body fat.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
13. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
14. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
15. Before noon.
16. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
17. 1/1000 gram.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A fraudulent business scheme.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Jordan's port.
36. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A telegram sent abroad.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. 10 grams.
53. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
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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. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. A large fleet.
7. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
8. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A radioactive transuranic element.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. A light touch or stroke.
25. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
40. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Young sheep.
44. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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