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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Having only superficial plausibility.
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. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Russian country house.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. 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.
25. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
28. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. The act of scanning.
34. A light touch or stroke.
36. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
37. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. Fiddler crabs.
54. Having much flesh (especially fat).
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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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. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. An informal term for a father.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. An awkward stupid person.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
33. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
35. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
39. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
43. Material used to daub walls.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
48. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
49. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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