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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. An accountant certified by the state.
11. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
16. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
17. 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.
19. South African term for `boss'.
23. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
26. An awkward stupid person.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
36. Serving as or forming a base.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
53. Offering fun and gaiety.
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1. Highly excited.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. In bed.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
9. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
10. By bad luck.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
21. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
22. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
30. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
36. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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