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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
12. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
19. Selling or related to selling direct to the consumer.
20. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843).
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
25. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
26. One or some or every or all without specification.
29. A peasant farmer in the Scottish highlands.
32. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
35. An associate degree in nursing.
36. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
41. A cooperative unit.
43. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
45. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
46. Engage or hire for work.
47. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
48. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. Lower in esteem.
52. Not reflecting light.
53. Noisy talk.
55. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
59. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
62. The mother of your father or mother.
66. Any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active.
70. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
71. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
74. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
76. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
78. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
79. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
80. Changed in form or character without becoming something else.
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. Affected manners intended to impress others.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
4. United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981).
5. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
8. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
9. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages).
12. Wood of a pecan tree.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
21. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
23. In a natural state.
27. One thousand periods per second.
28. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
30. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
31. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
33. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.
34. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
37. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
38. Obvious and dull.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. Leafless East Indian vine.
42. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. An antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone).
54. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
56. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
57. Either extremity of something that has length.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. Of or relating to the hyoid bone n.
61. The square of a body of any size of type.
63. A sudden short attack.
64. Channel into a new direction.
65. Lie adjacent to another.
67. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
69. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
72. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
73. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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