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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Straighten up or out.
10. A humorous anecdote or remark.
13. 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.
14. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Type genus of the Felidae.
18. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
19. By bad luck.
21. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
22. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
23. The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal.
26. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
30. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
34. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
38. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
39. Marked by skill in deception.
40. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
41. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
46. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
49. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.
54. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
59. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
60. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
61. A Scottish word.
62. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
63. A doctor's degree in education.
64. A state in New England.
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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. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
5. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
6. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
7. American inventor.
8. Of or in or relating to the nose.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
11. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
20. Short and fat.
24. A drama set to music.
25. (Middle Eastern) Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds.
27. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
28. A small nail.
29. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
31. Petty quarrel.
32. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
33. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
35. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
42. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
44. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
45. A means of serving.
47. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
48. A small replica of a person.
50. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
51. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
52. In bed.
53. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
55. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. In operation or operational.
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