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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. (zoology) Of or resembling a goose.
12. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. By bad luck.
24. Cause annoyance in.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. Well matched.
29. The central area of a church.
32. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
34. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
38. State in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
43. Breed of sled dog developed in Alaska.
46. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
47. Small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
57. A comedian who uses gags.
58. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
61. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
63. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
65. Equipped with or wearing a helmet.
69. The seed of the chickpea plant.
72. The cry made by sheep.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
75. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
78. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
79. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
80. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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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 nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
5. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
6. In regular succession without gaps.
7. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
8. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
9. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
21. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
23. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
25. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
31. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Make steady.
36. Submerged freshwater perennials.
37. Of or relating to Libya or its people.
39. A city in western Russia on the Dnieper River.
40. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
44. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
48. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
49. The Creator.
50. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
54. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
55. A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
56. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
59. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
60. Produce a literary work.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
67. Very dark black.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
71. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
76. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
77. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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