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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
10. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
13. Cut off from a whole.
14. German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945).
15. The square of a body of any size of type.
16. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
17. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
19. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
21. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger.
23. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.
26. Desire strongly or persistently.
27. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
31. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Two items of the same kind.
41. Rate of revolution of a motor.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
47. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
50. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
54. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
55. A yellow quartz.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. A tributary of the Rhine.
60. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
61. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
62. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
63. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
64. Take in solid food.
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1. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. Great coolness and composure under strain.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
6. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
7. Eliminate from the body.
8. Make anew.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
12. A mug intended for serving beer.
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
20. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
22. A Mid-Atlantic state.
24. A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
32. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
33. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
38. Flat tableland with steep edges.
40. The wood of an African obeche tree.
42. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
43. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
45. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
48. Set lower.
49. The closing section of a musical composition.
51. Not widely known.
52. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
53. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
56. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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