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1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. A city in northern India.
8. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. An associate degree in nursing.
19. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
22. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
25. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
26. By bad luck.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A light touch or stroke.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
46. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Extremely pleasing.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. 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.
6. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
9. Wood of a sumac.
10. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
15. Type genus of the Anatidae.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. Not widely known.
36. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
37. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
41. Meat from a calf.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
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