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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Fornax and Cetus.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
20. (Irish) God of the sea.
22. 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.
25. Curved or curving in and out.
27. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
28. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
31. Not final or absolute.
33. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
36. A person active in party politics.
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. American novelist (1909-1955).
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang.
48. Avatar of Vishnu.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. An expression of greeting.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Largest crested screamer.
58. 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.
59. Before noon.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
68. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
71. East Asian perennial herbs.
75. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
76. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
79. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
80. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
81. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
83. Black tropical American cuckoo.
84. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
85. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
86. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. Highly excited.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. In bed.
4. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
5. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
6. (used in combination) Dominated or obsessed by.
7. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
9. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
10. The capital and principal port of Tunisia.
11. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
12. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
13. Cry plaintively.
14. Mentally healthy.
21. A ravine or gully in southern Asia.
23. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
24. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC).
30. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. A tall upright megalith.
35. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A bachelor's degree in theology.
55. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
56. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A master's degree in fine arts.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
65. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
66. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
67. One million periods per second.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
70. A wound resulting from biting.
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
74. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
77. The basic unit of money in Romania.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
82. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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