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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. (Jewish folklore) A demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
13. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
14. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
22. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. Common Indian weaverbird.
29. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
30. Two items of the same kind.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Serving as or forming a base.
38. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
45. Avatar of Vishnu.
47. A Mid-Atlantic state.
51. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
57. Divulge information or secrets.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
61. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
64. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
65. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
66. A nation in northern North America.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
2. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
3. In a nasty ill-tempered manner.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. An affirmative.
6. React with bromine.
7. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A city in northern India.
11. The act of scanning.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. An informal term for a father.
25. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
26. Before noon.
28. A French abbot.
31. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
32. In bed.
33. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
36. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
40. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
41. United States writer (1914-1986).
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. Little known Kamarupan languages.
48. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
49. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
52. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. God of love and erotic desire.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Being nine more than ninety.
63. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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