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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Form metals with a swage.
9. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
13. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
18. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
19. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
21. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
23. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
24. A state in New England.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
34. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
45. An Anatolian language.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
53. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
61. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
62. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
63. An old Scottish coin of little value.
66. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. A port city in southwestern Iran.
69. A case for containing a set of articles.
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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. The act of wiggling.
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
8. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
9. King of Wessex.
10. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
11. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
12. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
20. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
27. The sixth month of the civil year.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. The last (12th) month of the year.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
41. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
43. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. A doctor's degree in religion.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
51. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
52. In bed.
55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
56. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
57. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
59. A master's degree in business.
60. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
64. A bachelor's degree in religion.
65. Half the width of an em.
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