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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
9. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
14. Censure severely or angrily.
15. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
18. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
19. By bad luck.
21. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. Filled with fear or apprehension.
24. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
26. Before noon.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. An informal term for a father.
37. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
39. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
41. (Sumerian) Sun god.
42. The cry made by sheep.
44. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
45. A ribbon used as a decoration.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
53. A large fleet.
57. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
59. A genus of Pyralidae.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
64. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
66. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
67. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
68. A card game for 2 players.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Among the largest bony fish.
4. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
7. The capital and largest city of Japan.
8. A Russian river.
9. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
10. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
11. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. The act of scanning.
23. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
25. 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.
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
30. The basic unit of money in Peru.
31. Material used to daub walls.
33. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
34. God of death.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A light touch or stroke.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A city in southeastern South Korea.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
46. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
49. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
50. Lower in esteem.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
54. Not widely known.
55. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
56. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
58. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
60. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
61. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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