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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. The act of setting in operation.
11. Fallow deer.
15. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
16. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
17. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
18. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
19. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
21. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. Bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America.
26. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
29. American novelist (1909-1955).
33. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
36. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
38. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
39. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
42. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Obvious and dull.
48. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
49. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
51. God of wealth and love.
52. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
54. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
65. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
68. A man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland.
71. 43rd President of the United States.
74. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment.
78. An advanced law degree.
79. A light touch or stroke.
80. Being of the same opinion.
81. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. A unit of power equal to one million watts.
4. Treated with excessive indulgence.
5. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
6. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
7. Sell (something) again after having bought it.
8. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Cause to lose one's nerve.
10. A heavy precious metallic element.
11. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. A desert in southern Israel.
27. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
32. Elk or moose.
34. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
35. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
37. Type genus of the Hylidae.
40. A French abbot.
41. Related on the mother's side.
43. Stalk of a moss capsule.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
53. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
62. Cause to ripen.
63. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
64. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
66. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
67. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
69. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
70. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
72. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
73. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
77. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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