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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense.
10. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
13. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
14. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
17. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
19. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
21. South African term for `boss'.
22. Informal terms for a mother.
23. The sign language used in the United States.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
35. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. An associate degree in applied science.
38. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
40. An officer of the law.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. A contorted facial expression.
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
60. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
63. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
64. Used of a single unit or thing.
65. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
66. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
4. Horned vipers.
5. (botany) Especially of leaves.
6. The act of scanning.
7. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
8. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
9. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
10. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
11. A genus of Mustelidae.
12. By bad luck.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
25. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
26. Not final or absolute.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. Fallow deer.
30. Using speech rather than writing.
31. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Made of fir or pine.
39. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
41. A city in east central Texas.
43. God of death.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
50. A French abbot.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
53. The female reproductive cell.
54. God of love and erotic desire.
55. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
57. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
58. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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