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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. A small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.
10. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
14. Separate by avulsion.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
18. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
19. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
21. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
23. A skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance.
25. Little known Kamarupan languages.
28. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Pitching dangerously to one side.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
39. A fraudulent business scheme.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
46. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
57. An awkward stupid person.
58. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
59. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
60. A master's degree in fine arts.
61. Used of a single unit or thing.
62. A port city in southwestern Iran.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
5. (often followed by `with' or used in combination) Troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers.
6. Failing to detonate.
7. A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
8. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
9. An alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city.
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. The content of cognition.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. Fraught with extreme danger.
22. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
24. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
30. God of fire.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A master's degree in business.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
47. Very dark black.
48. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
51. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
56. A boy or man.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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