CROSSWORD 1551
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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint. 11. Employed in accomplishing something. 15. Light informal conversation for social occasions. 16. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy. 17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other. 18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. 19. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter. 20. Foot pain. 22. 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. 24. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed. 26. Of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca. 28. A Nilotic language. 31. The capital and chief port of Qatar. 32. God of love and erotic desire. 36. Toward the mouth or oral region. 39. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel. 40. Covered with paving material. 42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 45. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis. 46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. 48. Having no parts resembling rays. 51. Any time of new development. 53. A genus of the family Droseraceae. 54. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit. 55. (informal) Of the highest quality. 57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically). 58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 60. 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. 64. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings. 70. Submerged freshwater perennials. 72. An ugly evil-looking old woman. 73. Pearl oysters. 76. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS. 77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 78. Not carved. 79. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman. 80. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles. 81. An informal conversation. 82. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
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1. Highly excited. 2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery. 3. In bed. 4. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes. 5. A quantity of no importance. 6. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula. 7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). 8. Convert a cock into a capon. 9. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god). 10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 11. A transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission. 12. Used of the language of the deaf. 13. English essayist (1775-1834). 14. Made of fir or pine. 21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan. 25. An informal term for a father. 27. The compass point that is one point north of due east. 29. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders. 30. A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall). 33. Transient cessation of respiration. 34. A large and imposing house. 35. Squash bugs. 37. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living. 38. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque. 41. The specified day of the month. 43. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt. 44. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets. 47. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office. 49. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively. 50. A cruel and brutal fellow. 52. A doctor's degree in music. 56. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927). 59. Yellow-fever mosquitos. 61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. 62. A sloping edge on a cutting tool. 63. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955). 65. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools. 66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent. 67. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans. 68. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element. 69. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot. 71. Remove with or as if with a ladle. 74. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion. 75. 100 avos equal 1 pataca. Feel free to print out this crossword puzzle for your personal use. You may also link to it. However, this web page and puzzle are copyrighted and may not be distributed without prior written consent.