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1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
5. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
8. Inquire about.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
22. A master's degree in fine arts.
23. A Mid-Atlantic state.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
29. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
31. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
40. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
41. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
42. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
45. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. Water frozen in the solid state.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Jordan's port.
19. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
21. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Of or like a cecum.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. Of or in or relating to the nose.
34. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
38. An honorary degree in science.
39. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
40. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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