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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
11. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
18. Greek mythology.
21. An informal term for a father.
23. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
25. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
28. Look at with amorous intentions.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
43. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
45. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
47. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
49. Informal terms for a mother.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. An unforeseen obstacle.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A building where prostitutes are available.
5. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
6. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
10. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
15. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
26. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
30. Type genus of the Caviidae.
31. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
34. A woman of refinement.
35. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. An informal term for a father.
42. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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