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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
12. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
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. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Wetness caused by water.
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. By bad luck.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
26. Wood of a yew.
29. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. English poet (1554-1586).
37. A genus of European owls.
38. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
39. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
42. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea.
44. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
46. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
51. A city and port in northern Jutland.
53. Covered with paving material.
55. Informal terms for a mother.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. Of or relating to near the ear.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. In bed.
68. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. The 3rd planet from the sun.
75. An affirmative.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
80. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
81. Pale gray.
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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. A human limb.
5. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
6. Type genus of the Amiidae.
7. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993).
8. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
9. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
10. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
11. On or toward the lee.
12. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
13. A natural talent.
14. Perfume esp. with a censer.
22. A council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. 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.
28. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae.
30. Largest crested screamer.
33. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
36. Being nine more than forty.
40. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.
41. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
50. The animal order including amoebas.
52. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
58. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
59. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
60. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
61. Lower in esteem.
62. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
63. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
66. Advanced in years.
69. Make an etching of.
70. The serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
73. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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