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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
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. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
20. State in northeastern India.
22. By bad luck.
24. A stock exchange in New York.
25. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
26. Marked by the reception of pay.
28. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
29. At full speed.
37. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
39. Half the width of an em.
40. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
42. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
46. A telephone connection.
48. Any taillike structure.
49. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
50. A federally chartered savings bank.
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
54. A small but appreciable amount.
58. One or some or every or all without specification.
59. Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia.
62. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
65. United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997).
71. The capital and largest city of Japan.
75. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
76. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
80. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
81. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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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. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
5. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
6. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
7. Stalk of a moss capsule.
8. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
9. A growth in strength or number or importance.
10. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
13. A small nail.
14. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
21. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
23. A hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum.
27. Type genus of the Anatidae.
30. A sudden short attack.
31. (botany) Of some seeds.
32. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
33. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
34. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
35. United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953).
36. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
38. The basic unit of money in Panama.
41. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
45. The act of scanning.
47. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
51. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
53. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
55. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
56. Of or relating to or attended by putrefaction.
57. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
64. Not in action or at work.
66. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
69. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
70. A Loloish language.
72. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
73. Liveliness and energy.
74. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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