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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A woman sahib.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
16. English poet (1618-1857).
17. A period of time spent sleeping.
18. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
20. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
21. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. (prefix) Half or partial.
23. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
25. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
29. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
31. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
39. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
43. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
44. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
46. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
47. The capital of Switzerland.
48. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
51. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
52. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
57. A variety of leaf bug.
59. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
60. The hulled and crushed grain of various cereals.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
70. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Voltaren) that is administered only orally.
73. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
75. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
76. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
77. A common Old World wading bird with long red legs.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
81. Extinct dodos and solitaires.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. Informal terms for a mother.
4. A master's degree in library science.
5. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
6. A unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt.
7. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
8. Muslim name for God.
9. Worthy of religious veneration.
10. Water frozen in the solid state.
11. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
12. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Irish playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909).
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. An associate degree in applied science.
32. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
34. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
36. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
37. Obvious and dull.
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
45. A contorted facial expression.
49. Clover ferns.
50. Dark gray peccary with an indistinct white collar.
53. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
54. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
55. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
61. A genus of Laridae.
62. The fur of an otter.
64. A genus of Indriidae.
66. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
71. Toward the mouth or oral region.
72. The income arising from land or other property.
74. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
78. A person forced to flee from home or country.
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