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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A fastener for a door or lid.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
12. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Affected manners intended to impress others.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
24. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
26. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
33. Not only so, but.
36. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
43. Highly excited.
45. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
46. How long something has existed.
47. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. Flat tableland with steep edges.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
3. The month following March and preceding May.
4. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
6. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
7. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
23. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
25. The quantity contained in a keg.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A master's degree in library science.
31. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
32. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
37. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
38. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
44. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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