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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A fastener for a door or lid.
12. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Type genus of the Ranidae.
18. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. God of fire.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
22. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
23. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
28. By bad luck.
30. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
31. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
37. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
41. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
42. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
44. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
45. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
46. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
47. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
49. An uproarious party.
50. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
51. Expel, as of gases and odors.
55. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
56. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
58. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
59. Small genus of southeastern Asian tropics.
61. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
63. At full speed.
65. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
67. A condition of great disorder.
69. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
70. Squash bugs.
73. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
74. Oblong cream puff.
76. An analgesic for mild pain.
77. Ice cream served with a topping.
79. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
81. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
83. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
87. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
90. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
92. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
95. (Babylonian) The sky god.
96. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
97. A woman of refinement.
98. A small cake leavened with yeast.
99. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
5. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
6. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. A pike fitted with an ax head.
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
10. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
11. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
12. The side of an object that is opposite its front.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Unusually short.
15. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
25. A warning against certain acts.
27. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
29. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
33. Be insistent and refuse to budge.
34. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
35. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
36. Small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba.
38. State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror.
39. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
40. A man who serves as a sailor.
43. Type genus of the Amiidae.
48. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
52. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
53. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
54. Having inflections to indicate tense.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
62. The capital and largest city of Dominica.
64. Using the voice.
68. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
71. Spider monkeys.
72. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
75. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
78. City in Sudan.
80. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
84. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
85. Long and thin and often limp.
86. The twelfth month of the civil year.
88. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
89. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
93. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
94. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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