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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A coarse lace.
11. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
17. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
18. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
19. Lower oneself with a double rope coiled aroound the body from a mountainside.
21. 1 species.
23. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
24. One of the three sections of the hipbone.
25. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. The basic unit of money in Iran.
28. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
32. In bed.
34. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. Of or relating to near the ear.
51. Largest crested screamer.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. Traveling on horseback.
58. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. An honorary law degree.
62. A council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
68. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. Put out, as of a candle or a light.
72. Wild and domestic cattle.
75. The last (12th) month of the year.
76. (informal) Of the highest quality.
77. Small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals.
78. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
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1. Garlic mayonnaise.
2. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
3. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A byproduct of inflammation.
7. A genus of Hirundinidae.
8. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
9. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. Make a more or less disguised reference to.
12. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
13. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
14. Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times.
20. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
22. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
27. Gull family.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
33. A decree that prohibits something.
35. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
36. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
38. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
39. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
40. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. Soft and sticky.
48. Durable fragrant wood.
50. Release through one's pores, as of sweat.
52. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
55. Sect of Orthodox Jews who follow the Mosaic Law strictly.
56. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
57. Of or in or relating to the nose.
59. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
60. Lower in esteem.
63. Common black European thrush.
64. (slang) Merchandise that is shoddy or inferior.
67. A Loloish language.
70. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
73. A state in midwestern United States.
74. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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