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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Milan or its people.
12. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. Not based on fact.
17. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
20. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.
24. A proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya.
26. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
28. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
31. Affect with wonder.
34. A gate at the rear of a vehicle.
36. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
38. A country person.
41. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
42. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
45. A white trivalent metallic element.
46. That is to say.
47. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
50. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
53. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
54. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
55. Lower in esteem.
57. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
58. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
59. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
61. The fourth month of the civil year.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
74. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
76. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
78. In bed.
79. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
81. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
82. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
83. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
84. Very dark black.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
5. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
6. The mints.
7. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
8. Large Indian antelope.
9. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
10. The process of seeping.
11. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
12. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
13. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
14. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
22. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
25. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
27. The last (12th) month of the year.
29. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
32. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
33. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
35. An associate degree in applied science.
37. Of or relating to or functioning as a clause.
39. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
40. The fourth month of the civil year.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
49. A state in midwestern United States.
51. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
52. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. A telegram sent abroad.
66. Make less active or intense.
68. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
69. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
70. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
72. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
73. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
75. An electrically charged particle.
77. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
80. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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