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1. In bed.
5. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
15. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
41. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
44. An accidental happening.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
48. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Speaking a Slavic language.
53. How long something has existed.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
4. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. Not only so, but.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
19. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. Grind together, of teeth.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
40. Before noon.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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