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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers.
12. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Stripped of drapery.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Of southern Europe.
19. Become wider.
20. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
22. A deep bow.
24. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
26. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
27. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
29. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
39. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
41. A strong emotion.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. Preserve of crushed fruit.
47. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
49. Pronounce with a lowered velum.
51. German composer.
53. (prefix) Within.
54. Half the width of an em.
55. A stock exchange in New York.
58. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
60. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
62. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
63. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
64. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
67. A member of a formerly tribal people in south central India.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
76. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
79. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
80. An enclosed space.
81. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
82. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
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1. Lower in esteem.
2. (botany) Especially of leaves.
3. Wood of any of various maple trees.
4. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
5. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
6. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
7. Using speech rather than writing.
8. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
9. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control.
13. Marked by the reception of pay.
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
21. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. Approaching or constituting a maximum.
28. An informal conversation.
30. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
32. A person of mean disposition.
33. An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands.
34. An implement used to erase something.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
37. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
38. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
45. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
52. Being two more than sixty.
56. The quality of being logically valid.
57. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
59. Someone who owes money.
61. Unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
68. Having finished or arrived at completion.
69. Avatar of Vishnu.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
73. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
74. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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