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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
8. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
11. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. Any of various units of capacity.
17. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
18. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
20. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
22. The act of scanning.
24. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
25. Considerate and solicitous care.
26. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
39. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. (British) Your grandmother.
44. A decree that prohibits something.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
48. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
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1. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
2. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
3. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
5. Late time of life.
6. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
7. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
10. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
19. Being one more than ninety.
21. A blind god.
23. God of fire.
27. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Basic principles of the cosmos.
31. A Muslim council of state.
32. A particular environment or walk of life.
34. 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.
35. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
38. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. (British) Your grandmother.
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