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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
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. Tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as in surgery to prevent bleeding).
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
20. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
22. By bad luck.
24. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
25. English Romantic poet (1795-1821).
26. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
28. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
31. Muslim name for God.
34. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
37. A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
44. A beckoning gesture.
46. City recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
51. Black tropical American cuckoo.
52. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
62. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
65. Lacking motor coordination.
67. (electricity) Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
73. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
74. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
78. Male red deer.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
81. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
82. A manner of performance.
83. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
84. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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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. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
7. A member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay.
8. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
9. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
10. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
11. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
12. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
13. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
14. South African term for `boss'.
21. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
23. Singing jazz.
27. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
29. 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.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
32. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
33. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
35. A proud stiff pompous gait.
36. The act of refusing a request.
38. A member of a Finnish people of Russia.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. Slightly open.
45. God of love and erotic desire.
48. The state of being split or cleft.
50. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
55. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
56. Come into existence.
58. A glass for beer.
60. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
63. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
64. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
66. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
68. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
69. The closing section of a musical composition.
71. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
72. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
75. Top part of an apron.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. An informal term for a father.
80. Before noon.
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