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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Shepherd's purse.
12. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research.
17. (Irish) The sea personified.
18. A small piece of cloth.
19. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. Small genus of western North American herbs similar to Lesquerella.
23. In equal amounts or shares.
25. A city and port in northern Jutland.
27. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
28. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
30. Someone who keeps a diary or journal.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. Suggestive of youth.
39. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
41. A shelter from danger or hardship.
44. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. The British system of withholding tax.
48. Containing or filled with salt.
49. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
56. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
59. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
62. A woman of refinement.
64. A very fast American hound.
67. Make lighter or brighter.
71. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
72. Any plant of the genus Erica.
75. 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.
76. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
77. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
79. A boy or man.
80. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
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1. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. Relating to or characteristic of Hungary.
4. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
5. Sour or bitter in taste.
6. An amount of time.
7. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
8. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
9. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism.
12. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
13. A domain in which something is dominant.
14. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. Cause to feel enthusiasm.
26. In a joyous manner.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
31. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a flat heel).
37. Not set afire or burning.
38. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
40. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
42. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
43. River in eastern Asia.
46. An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime.
50. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
51. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
52. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
57. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
61. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
63. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
65. A large number or amount.
66. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
68. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
70. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
74. Being one more than two.
78. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
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