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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A severe shortage (especially a shortage of food).
10. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
14. Attach a yoke or harness to, as of a draft animal.
15. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
16. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
17. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
19. Squash bugs.
21. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. A nation in northern North America.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
48. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
49. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
56. The sixth month of the civil year.
57. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
60. Type genus of the Majidae.
61. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
63. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
64. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
65. Jordan's port.
66. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
3. Flat tableland with steep edges.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
5. (Babylonian) The sky god.
6. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
7. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
8. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. Make attractive or lovable.
11. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
12. Little known Kamarupan languages.
18. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
20. A neutral middle vowel.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. God of death.
28. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
31. By bad luck.
32. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A decree that prohibits something.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. A young woman making her debut into society.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s.
47. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
54. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. Unknown god.
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