Words Within Elements

Can you solve the word clues, and then give the name of the chemical element that contains each answer?

Example - Clue: Female chicken or lobster/ Answer: Hen / Element: rHENium

NOTE: One answer appears within the British English spelling of its corresponding element

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Clue	Answer	Element
Falcon-headed Egyptian god	Horus	Phosphorus
Scottish loch dear to crytozoologists' hearts	Ness	Oganesson / Tennessine
Short name for a speedy drug used by both Allied and Axis forces during WWII	Meth	Promethium
Not amateurs (or antis)	Pros	Dysprosium
Sinister, eyeball-stealing alien collective featured in Star Trek	Borg	Seaborgium
Spanish for "gold"	Oro	Boron
Hindu deity Shiva can have four of these	Arms	Darmstadtium
Twice-repeated nonsense word in the title of a Tommy James and the Shondells hit song from 1968, made popular again by Billy Idol in 1981	Mony	Antimony
Japanese comics, cartooning and animation	Manga	Manganese
British-made car not ergonomically suited for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (see caveat)	Mini	Aluminium
First name of cotton gin inventor Whitney	Eli	Helium / Berkelium / Nobelium
Vietnamese Lunar New Year	Tet / Tết	Lutetium
British submachine gun used in WWII	Sten	Tungsten
Seven-letter element containing the name of a six-letter element	Terbium	Ytterbium
Towering, bark-skinned creature from Lord of the Rings	Ent	Roentgenium
Main currency of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Gabon, among others	Franc	Francium
A class of drugs used to lower cholesterol	Statin	Astatine
Large-capacity receptacle from which one might sip a rauchbier, perhaps	Stein	Einsteinium
An inhabitant of Estonia, Lithuania, or Latvia	Balt	Cobalt

Level 71

Mar 23, 2019

Hard, clever, & fun.

Level 67

Mar 26, 2019

thank you, HelveticaBold - glad you enjoyed it.

Level 62

May 14, 2021

Great quiz; the erbium/terbium/ytterbium one is really clever.

Level 67

May 14, 2021

thanks very much XYU, i appreciate it.

Level 74

May 14, 2021

berkelium works for Eli

Level 67

May 14, 2021

thank you, gprimoff - good catch. i'll add it in.

Level 55

Aug 10, 2022

Nobelium as well.

Level 67

Aug 20, 2022

thanks very much for letting me know, Hz12 - adding it in now...

Level 88

May 14, 2021

Great idea! Some were pretty tough though, I could have used a bit more time.

Level 67

May 14, 2021

thanks for the support and suggestion, vermiciousknid - i'll add some more time.

Level 77

Jul 27, 2022

How did more people get einsteinium then got stein?

Level 67

Aug 3, 2022

an excellent question, and a mystery to me.

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