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1. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
5. "an adherent of an esoteric monotheistic religious sect living in the relative security of the mountains of Syria and Lebanon who believes that Al-hakim was an incarnation of God; ""a Druze is permitted to conform outwardly to the faith of the unbelievers among whom he lives"""
8. United States writer and poet (1932-1963)
9. a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
10. a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures
11. a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole
12. colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long
14. "(Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; ""the family is sitting shiva"""
18. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
20. a bad-tempered person
23. a member of the Sicilian Mafia
24. an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
25. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
26. the sail above the royal on a square-rigger
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1. (Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx
2. a jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
3. a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry
4. (Norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match
5. informal terms for dogs
6. British actor and playwright (born in 1921)
7. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
13. flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
15. English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
16. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
17. any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups
19. "all of something including all its component elements or parts; ""Europe considered as a whole""; ""the whole of American literature"""
21. widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
22. Austrian architect (1870-1933)
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