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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Type genus of the Tragulidae.
17. Something that remunerates.
18. A port in southwestern Scotland.
19. Belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box.
26. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
27. Being three more than ninety.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
31. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
35. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
41. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A manner of performance.
46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. (British) Informal term for information.
49. Black tropical American cuckoo.
51. City in central Iran.
54. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
57. Having been read.
58. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
60. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
62. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
66. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. African antelopes.
74. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
75. A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
78. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
79. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
80. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. Cause to be embarrassed.
2. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
3. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
4. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole.
5. Metal shackles.
6. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
9. In or of the month preceding the present one.
10. Dangerous to yourself or your interests.
11. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. The eighth month of the civil year.
22. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
25. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
28. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
30. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
32. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
33. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
34. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
36. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
37. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
38. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
42. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
43. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
52. Relating to or lying near the palate.
53. A musical percussion instrument.
55. The wood of an African obeche tree.
56. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
59. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
61. Jordan's port.
63. The capital of Western Samoa.
64. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
65. Make anew.
67. The female reproductive cell.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
72. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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