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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
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. Strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. An airport for helicopters.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
21. By bad luck.
23. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
24. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
26. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
28. (used informally) Very small.
30. A genus of Mustelidae.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A particular situation.
41. A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards.
44. Fallow deer.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
49. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
50. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
55. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
58. Live in or as if in a tent.
62. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
65. Found along western Atlantic coast.
71. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
72. (prosody) Of or consisting of spondees.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
77. Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley.
78. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
79. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
80. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
81. 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 residue that remains when something is burned.
5. Characterized by speed.
6. The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.
7. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
8. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
9. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
10. Rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts.
11. Informal terms for a meal.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
13. The act of scanning.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
22. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
25. Involving the entire earth.
27. Small air-breathing arthropod.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
32. A yellow quartz.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
36. Of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture.
37. European scaleless blenny.
39. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
40. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
42. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
43. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
56. The square of a body of any size of type.
60. Thick like cream.
62. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. A cravat with wide square ends.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
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