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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor.
12. A light touch or stroke.
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 quantity a scoop will hold.
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
20. Enthusiastic approval.
22. By bad luck.
24. (British) A member of the military police.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Type genus of the Amiidae.
29. Show a response or a reaction to something.
32. Any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes.
35. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
38. A genus of Accipitridae.
40. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
46. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
52. Praise, glorify, or honor.
53. Register formally.
56. A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
58. American novelist (1909-1955).
60. The capital and largest city of Japan.
61. In or of the month preceding the present one.
62. Short and fat.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. Give a benediction to.
73. The person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
78. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
79. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.
82. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
83. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
84. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A city in northern India.
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. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
5. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
6. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
7. Fearless and daring.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
10. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
11. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
12. A unit of pain intensity.
13. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
23. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
25. (especially of ears) Quickly lifted up or out in attention.
28. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
30. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
31. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
33. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
34. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
36. A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.
37. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
39. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
42. (Roman Catholic) A greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist.
43. Work doggedly or persistently.
44. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
47. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible.
48. Hoary alyssum.
49. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
54. City in Sudan.
55. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
63. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
65. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
66. Engage or hire for work.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
80. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
81. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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