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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A size of paper used especially in Britain.
12. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
15. 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.
16. Ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes.
17. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Used by Maoris for thatching.
20. State in northeastern India.
22. By bad luck.
24. Half the width of an em.
25. In an artful manner.
27. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
29. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
31. A garment that covers the head and face.
32. A special loved one.
35. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
37. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
40. A communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc.
42. A support or foundation.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
54. Of or relating to words.
58. Located on a side.
59. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
60. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
63. Someone whose business is advertising.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
69. God of fire.
72. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
76. Not only so, but.
77. Dragonflies and damselflies.
78. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
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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. Having much flesh (especially fat).
5. A slender double-reed instrument.
6. A South American river 1,500 miles long.
7. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
8. Large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere.
9. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
10. Before noon.
11. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
12. Of or relating to or located at the base.
13. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
14. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
21. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
23. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation.
26. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
28. Fate personified.
30. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
33. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
34. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
36. An affirmative.
38. An immunoglobulin E that is formed as an antibody against allergens (such as pollen).
39. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
41. A resident of Kansas.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
49. Black tropical American cuckoo.
51. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
52. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
53. Of time long past.
55. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
56. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
57. Stay the same.
61. American novelist (1909-1955).
62. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
64. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
66. Having relatively few calories.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
70. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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