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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Of or relating to the structure of the body.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. The basic unit of money in Albania.
16. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
17. A slight amount or degree of difference.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
20. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
21. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
23. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
25. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
26. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
27. Not agitated.
29. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
31. A New England state.
36. Oil palms.
39. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
40. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
42. In bed.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A short film and commentary about current events.
52. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
58. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
62. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).
66. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
68. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
69. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
72. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
73. Irritate or vex.
74. Any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers.
75. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
76. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Algerian or its inhabitants.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
5. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
7. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
8. A European river.
9. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
10. Not out.
11. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
12. A state in the western United States.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
22. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
24. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
28. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
32. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. A river in southeastern France.
35. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
37. Again but in a new or different way.
38. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. God of dawn and light.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. The complete duration of something.
49. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
50. Evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers.
51. A large and densely populated urban area.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
55. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
56. English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703).
59. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
63. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
64. Highly excited.
65. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
67. A city of central China.
70. Term of address for a man.
71. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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