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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A loft for storing hay.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Type genus of the Ranidae.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
16. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
43. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
49. Informal terms for a mother.
51. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
5. A bottle with a stopper.
6. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
10. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
18. Toward the mouth or oral region.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
35. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
40. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. God of love and erotic desire.
44. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. The cry made by sheep.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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