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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Petty quarrel.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. A card game for 2 players.
30. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
32. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Jordan's port.
45. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
46. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. A genus of Indriidae.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A Loloish language.
38. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. Inquire about.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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