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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992).
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
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. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
17. Something that remunerates.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. Command against.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. By bad luck.
23. A city in the European part of Russia.
24. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
26. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
29. Type genus of the Majidae.
31. A short amusing opera.
34. Mollusk with a low conical shell.
38. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
41. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
42. A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church).
43. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
45. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
46. Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776).
48. United States sculptor (1887-1966).
51. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
54. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
55. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
60. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
61. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
63. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
65. A steep descent of the water of a river.
72. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
73. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
80. English monk and scholar (672-735).
81. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
82. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. A city in northern India.
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. An informal term for a father.
5. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
6. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
7. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
8. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
9. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
10. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
11. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. The eighth month of the civil year.
22. A harsh noise made by scraping.
25. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
27. The property of being large in mass.
28. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
30. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
32. Type genus of the Parulidae.
33. A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
35. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
36. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
37. (of skin) Having a tan color from exposure to the sun.
39. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
40. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Being nine more than ninety.
49. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
50. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
57. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
58. Being nine more than forty.
59. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
62. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
64. Jordan's port.
66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
67. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
68. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
69. A Loloish language.
70. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
74. A rapid bustling commotion.
75. Lacking in light.
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