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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. An English ball game similar to baseball.
17. A human limb.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Of or relating to or involving or used in surgery.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
25. Being nine more than ninety.
27. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. Used of mouth or eyes.
35. Elk or moose.
39. Denuded of leaves.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Of or relating to an agent or agency.
44. Drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart.
46. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
47. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
48. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
52. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
53. Cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders.
55. Of or being the lowest female voice.
58. Informal terms for a mother.
59. An expression of greeting.
61. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
64. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
67. A general summary of a subject.
70. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
74. A small measure (usually of food).
75. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
78. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
79. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
83. Tear or be torn violently.
84. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
85. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
5. (British) Common sense.
6. Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin.
7. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
8. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
9. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
10. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
13. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
14. A city in northern India.
22. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
24. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
29. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
31. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
32. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
33. A notable achievement.
34. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
36. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
37. Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen.
38. Consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
45. Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.
50. The month following February and preceding April.
54. Like the pattern basic to the human fingerprint.
56. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
57. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
60. Used of a single unit or thing.
62. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
63. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
65. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
66. Jordan's port.
68. A choice that is made by voting.
69. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
71. The female reproductive cell.
72. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
73. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
76. Informal terms for your occupation.
77. Fiddler crabs.
81. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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