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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
11. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. Black tropical American cuckoo.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
25. Extremely pleasing.
26. A light touch or stroke.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. By bad luck.
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. The content of cognition.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
53. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
54. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Highly excited.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
4. 16 ounces.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. Type genus of the Anatidae.
10. A native American tent.
15. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
42. A Mid-Atlantic state.
44. Fallow deer.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
52. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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