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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Young plant or tree grown from a seed.
12. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. Tending to soothe or tranquilize.
17. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
18. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. A doctor's degree in religion.
27. A state in the western United States.
28. Without a flaw.
30. Minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella.
32. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
33. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
34. The basic unit of money in China.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. (informal) Fortitude and determination.
43. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
48. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
49. Top part of an apron.
50. Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany.
52. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
54. A city in northwestern Syria.
56. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
57. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
58. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. With eagerness.
63. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
65. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
69. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
74. Of or relating to the spleen.
75. Type genus of the Upupidae.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. The month following February and preceding April.
83. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
84. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
85. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
2. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
3. A design that consists of recurring shapes or colors.
4. A deep bow.
5. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. Gained or acquired.
7. Causing fear or dread or terror.
8. A boy or man.
9. Type genus of the family Ixodidae.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Having winglike extensions.
13. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
14. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
21. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
23. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
26. Two items of the same kind.
29. English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797).
31. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
35. German composer.
36. American dramatist (1928- ).
38. A primeval personification of air and breath.
40. Relating to or near the ulna.
41. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
42. Having an agreeably pungent taste.
44. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
46. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
47. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
51. Greek film actress (1925-1994).
53. A river in southeastern France.
55. Wood of a pecan tree.
59. A potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry.
62. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
64. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
67. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
68. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. Liquid excretory product.
77. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
81. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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