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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. The act of puncturing with a small point.
12. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
16. Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature.
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. A resident of Alabama.
20. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
22. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
24. Water frozen in the solid state.
25. Owned up to.
28. One thousandth of a second.
30. A socially awkward or tactless act.
31. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
34. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
35. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
38. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
39. An accountant certified by the state.
41. Being one more than fifty.
42. Being such by origin.
46. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
51. The capital and principal port of Tunisia.
52. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
53. A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
54. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
56. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
57. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
60. An unofficial association of people or groups.
61. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
62. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
65. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
71. A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
79. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
80. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
3. (South African) An ear of corn.
4. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
5. Avatar of Vishnu.
6. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
7. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
8. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
9. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
10. Being one more than eighteen.
11. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
12. Guinea fowl.
13. A primeval personification of air and breath.
14. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
19. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
21. The third day of the week.
23. Something acquired without compensation.
26. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
27. A master's degree in fine arts.
29. At an earlier place.
32. A colloquial expression for invitation.
33. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
36. Cry plaintively.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
43. On, to, or at the top.
44. A large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
45. Complacently or inanely foolish.
47. A telegram sent abroad.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
58. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
59. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
63. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
66. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
73. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
74. Having leadership guidance.
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