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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers.
12. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
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. Capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Inability to perceive written words.
20. Treated with wax.
22. By bad luck.
24. A doctor's degree in religion.
25. With great urgency.
27. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
30. A straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges.
33. British politician (1788-1850).
34. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
38. A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing.
40. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
41. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
42. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
45. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. Reed maces.
50. Of or pertaining to any Shinto sect other than Kokka Shinto.
52. A city of central China.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
54. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
56. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
60. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
64. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
67. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
69. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
70. A native or inhabitant of Bahrain.
73. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
74. Considerate and solicitous care.
75. Oldest known reptiles.
76. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
77. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
78. Of or relating to or forming an isthmus.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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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. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
6. In bed.
7. Roman goddess of night.
8. Being three in one.
9. Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. Fastened with stitches.
12. The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
13. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
14. A polite name for any woman.
21. Administer an oil or ointment to.
23. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
26. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
28. An empire in South Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
29. A hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia.
31. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
32. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
35. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
36. Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
37. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
39. A course of conduct.
43. Twining perennial North American plants.
44. Building material used as siding or roofing.
48. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
49. Everyone except the clergy.
51. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
55. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
57. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
58. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
59. Cause to change shape in a computer animation.
61. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
65. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
66. An informal conversation.
68. A city of central China.
71. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
72. Being one more than two.
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