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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Capable of being folded up and stored.
12. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. A humorous anecdote or remark.
16. Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface.
17. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Someone who plies a trade.
21. 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.
24. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
28. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
31. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. Tear or be torn violently.
36. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
38. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
39. Black tropical American cuckoo.
41. Fiddler crabs.
43. The first month of the year.
44. An analgesic for mild pain.
46. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
48. Located or originating from above.
50. The longest river in England.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands.
56. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
58. Related on the mother's side.
60. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. United States playwright (1906-1963).
64. A Hindu prince or king in India.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
71. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
73. A boy or man.
74. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. An island comprising the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Highly excited.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. Advanced in years.
4. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
5. In operation or operational.
6. United States journalist (1889-1974).
7. Indigo bush.
8. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
9. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
10. Wood of a larch tree.
11. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
12. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
13. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
14. The content of cognition.
20. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
22. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
23. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
25. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
26. Late time of life.
27. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
29. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
30. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
32. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
33. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
34. A genetic abnormality resulting in short stature.
37. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
40. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
42. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
45. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
47. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
49. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
54. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
55. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
57. (archaic) Of persons.
59. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
61. Type genus of the Ranidae.
63. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
69. The residue that remains when something is burned.
70. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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