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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Obvious and dull.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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. Having the same or similar characteristics.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A form of Japanese poetry.
18. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
19. By bad luck.
21. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. 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.
27. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
29. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
32. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
36. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
38. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
39. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
40. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
43. The food served and eaten at one time.
44. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
46. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
60. The airforce of Great Britain.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. Capital of the state of South Dakota.
67. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A large fleet.
70. 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. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
9. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
30. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
33. As soon as.
34. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
35. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
37. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
41. A proposition deducible from basic postulates.
42. French philosopher and theologian.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A federally chartered savings bank.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. The habitation of wild animals.
57. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
59. God of love and erotic desire.
61. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
62. An accountant certified by the state.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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