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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. A humorous anecdote or remark.
16. A feeling of craving something.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
21. Grind together, of teeth.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
26. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
27. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
29. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
30. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
38. Being or of the nature of an ovule.
40. Chief of the Vanir.
41. A vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension.
43. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
45. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
46. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. A state in northwestern North America.
48. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
50. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
51. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
54. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
60. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
63. A large fleet.
65. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
66. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
67. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
71. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
73. Of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages.
75. 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.
76. Type genus of the Amiidae.
77. Emotionally affected.
79. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
80. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
81. The simplest ketone.
82. 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. American novelist (1909-1955).
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Type genus of the Aphididae.
6. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. In ancient Semitic folklore.
10. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
11. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
12. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
13. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
14. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
19. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
22. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
25. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
28. Talk pompously.
31. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
32. A genus of Siphonaptera.
35. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
36. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
37. The chair of state of a monarch, bishop, etc..
39. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
49. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
52. A tight-fitting headdress.
53. Garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles.
55. Any of various small biting flies.
56. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
57. Avatar of Vishnu.
58. Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree.
59. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
61. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
64. Electric underground railway.
68. Largest known toad species.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
70. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
74. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
78. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
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