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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. A thrusting blow with a knife.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
13. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
14. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
15. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
16. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. An associate degree in applied science.
21. 10 grams.
22. Imperial moths.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
31. Jordan's port.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
36. Top part of an apron.
37. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. Failing to detonate.
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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. A quantity of no importance.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. Of or relating to or involving an area.
7. A quantity of money.
8. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
26. A decree that prohibits something.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Type genus of the Percidae.
38. A French abbot.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
41. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
42. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
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