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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Lacking gonads.
12. Inquire about.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Channel into a new direction.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Having branches.
20. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
28. Filled with a great quantity.
30. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
33. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
36. A person who eats human flesh.
39. A sudden very loud noise.
41. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Very dark black.
46. Tropical Asian starlings.
49. (Irish) The sea personified.
50. Indigo bush.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
55. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
58. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. An Eskimo hut.
62. A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806.
65. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
69. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
70. Dependent on chance.
73. The site of an archeological exploration.
74. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
75. Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment.
76. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
78. Be earlier in time.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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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. The products of human creativity.
5. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
6. A doctor's degree in optometry.
7. The seventh month of the civil year.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
10. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
11. Your general store of remembered information.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Fruit of the oak tree.
23. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
24. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
31. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
32. Register formally.
34. The capital of Lesotho.
35. A hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
40. Of a pale purple color.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
47. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
53. Capable of relieving pain.
54. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
56. Used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function.
57. A dark purplish red.
59. (botany) Especially of leaves.
60. Lower in esteem.
63. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
64. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
66. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
67. A city of central China.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. A slight amount or degree of difference.
72. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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