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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Having help.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. Excessive size.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
19. The capital of Turkey.
20. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
21. By bad luck.
23. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
25. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
26. Fiddler crabs.
28. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
31. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. Clothed or adorned with finery.
35. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
36. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
39. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
44. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
47. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
51. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
53. Tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia.
55. Type genus of the Gentianaceae.
57. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
61. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. Not only so, but.
72. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
76. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
79. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
80. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
81. A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council).
82. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
83. Range of what one can know or understand.
84. A yard outside the front or rear door of a house.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Among the largest bony fish.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
6. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
7. Complacently or inanely foolish.
8. Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations.
9. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. A doctor's degree in music.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
22. A Chadic language spoke south of Lake Chad.
24. Of or relating to or functioning as a phrase.
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Imperial moths.
34. Metal shackles.
37. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
40. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
42. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
43. In bed.
45. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
46. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
48. On or toward the lee.
52. An indirect (and usually malicious) implication.
54. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
56. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
60. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
68. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
69. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
70. One thousand grams.
71. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
73. The sixth month of the civil year.
74. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
75. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
77. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
78. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
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