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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
10. A master's degree in business.
13. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
14. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
20. Any competition.
21. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
25. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
28. An enclosed space.
31. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
35. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
44. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
47. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
48. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
50. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
54. An associate degree in applied science.
56. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
65. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
66. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
69. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
70. Step on it.
71. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. God of death.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
5. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
6. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
7. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
8. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
9. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
10. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
11. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
24. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
26. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
27. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
29. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
33. Type genus of the Amiidae.
34. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
41. An informal term for a father.
43. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
45. A Loloish language.
46. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
49. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
53. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. Half the width of an em.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. A small cake leavened with yeast.
59. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. An associate degree in nursing.
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