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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
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. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
20. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
23. Before noon.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
28. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
49. A container.
51. In bed.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
54. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
55. A doctor's degree in education.
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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. The eleventh month of the civil year.
5. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
15. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
21. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. Vietnamese New Year.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
38. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. A doctor's degree in religion.
43. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
46. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A state in New England.
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