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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. A special way of doing something.
16. 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.
17. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. (used of the moon) More than half full.
23. A town in central Belgium.
25. By bad luck.
27. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
28. French novelist (1871-1922).
29. Causing alarm or fear.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. Meat from an adult domestic bovine.
37. A stringed instrument of India.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
44. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
45. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. An inhabitant of Lappland.
51. A disorderly crowd of people.
52. Aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia.
56. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
57. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
58. Clear to the mind.
59. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
61. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
63. Slightly open.
65. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
66. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
68. Type genus of the Gavidae.
70. Having winglike extensions.
71. To fix or set securely or deeply.
74. Give a nickname to.
76. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
77. A port city in southwestern Iran.
81. (British) A person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent).
84. Largest known toad species.
88. The highest level or degree attainable.
89. A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Pittsburgh.
92. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
93. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
94. Of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England.
96. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
97. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
98. Characterized by friendship and good will.
99. Advanced in years.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
5. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
6. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
7. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
8. Enclosed in a basin.
9. (informal) Of the highest quality.
10. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
11. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
12. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
13. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
14. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
15. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
22. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
24. An honorary arts degree.
26. (plural) Hosts or armies.
30. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
33. The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.
34. Advance evidence for.
36. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
38. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
39. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
40. Recurring again and again.
42. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
46. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
50. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
53. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
54. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
55. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
60. Jordan's port.
62. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. A state in New England.
67. (Old Testament) The ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob).
68. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
69. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer.
73. A deep bow.
75. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
78. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
79. The brightest star in Cygnus.
80. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
82. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
83. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
85. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick.
86. An instinctive motive.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
90. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
91. A licensed medical practitioner.
95. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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