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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. Being one more than six.
16. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
20. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
21. A very young lamb.
23. A move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. The content of cognition.
27. The basic unit of money on Malta.
30. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
32. Before noon.
34. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
35. A person who yields or surrenders.
37. 1 species.
40. A country on western coast of Africa.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
47. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
48. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
54. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
55. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
56. Jordan's port.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
59. Performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others.
61. One million periods per second.
63. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
64. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
65. Of legislation.
69. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
75. A machine or person that adds.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. Bishop of Antioch who was martyred under Emperor Trajan (died 110).
80. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
81. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
82. Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing.
83. Being two more than fifty.
84. Used of a single unit or thing.
85. Overfull as with blood.
86. A yearning for something or to do something.
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1. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
2. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
3. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
7. By a small margin.
8. A bachelor's degree in religion.
9. King of Wessex.
10. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
11. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. Dwell (archaic).
14. Obvious and dull.
19. A woman of refinement.
22. Broad-winged soaring hawks.
24. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
28. Being one more than one.
29. 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.
31. Weapons considered collectively.
33. Carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes.
36. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
38. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
39. Having the same or similar characteristics.
41. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
42. A university in Connecticut.
45. Type genus of the Anatidae.
49. Young eel.
50. Any competition.
51. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
52. (sometimes followed by `to') Causing harm or injury.
53. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
58. In a giddy light-headed manner.
60. Relating to or being within or near the inner side or limit.
62. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
66. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
67. Suggestive of the supernatural.
68. Emptying accomplished by draining.
70. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
71. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
72. An unforeseen obstacle.
73. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
74. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
78. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
79. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
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