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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A step in walking or running.
10. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. (trademark) An antacid.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Voluntarily absent from home or country.
19. A female bartender.
21. A motley assortment of things.
23. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. In a gay manner.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
30. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
31. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
32. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
36. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
41. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. 16 ounces.
49. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
53. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. (botany) Especially of leaves.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
61. Term of address for a man.
62. The Holy Roman Emperors or the Emperors of Austria or Germany until 1918.
64. (informal) Roused to anger.
65. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
66. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. Slanderous defamation.
5. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
6. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
7. Not in good physical or mental health.
8. A person who acts and gets things done.
9. (combining form) Former.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Gambia or its inhabitants.
11. Of or relating to or involving an area.
12. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs.
18. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
22. A fit of shivering.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A quantity of no importance.
28. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Type genus of the family Aplysiidae.
38. Not in good physical or mental health.
40. A light touch or stroke.
42. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
45. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
50. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
51. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. An informal term for a father.
58. The sign language used in the United States.
59. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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