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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
16. The capital of Brazil.
17. Being one more than sixty.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
20. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
21. By bad luck.
23. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979).
30. An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.
33. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
36. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
39. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
41. A notice of someone's death.
42. In bed.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
47. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).
48. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
49. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
51. A chronic drinker.
53. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
54. The square of a body of any size of type.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. Relating to or caused by wind.
68. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
71. A master's degree in business.
72. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
73. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
76. Not easy.
77. A line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
5. Pain during urination.
6. A blank gap or missing part.
7. A river in southeastern France.
8. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
9. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. A bottle with a stopper.
12. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
13. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
14. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
22. Garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. Black tropical American cuckoo.
28. A son who has the same first name as his father.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
31. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
32. An unforeseen development.
34. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
35. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
37. A state in the western United States.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
43. Wish harm upon.
44. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
52. Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs.
55. Having a bulb.
57. An associate degree in nursing.
58. Very small.
59. A solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print.
60. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
61. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
62. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. A genus of Mustelidae.
67. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
69. The capital and largest city of Japan.
70. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
74. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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