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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole.
12. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
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. Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. Relating to or characteristic of wooded regions.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A bluish shade of green.
25. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
26. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
28. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
34. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Open the lock of.
42. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
43. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
45. A student who crams.
47. An oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine.
51. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
52. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
53. Talk pompously.
54. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
55. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
67. A large number or amount.
71. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
74. A slender double-reed instrument.
75. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
76. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
78. A Loloish language.
79. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
80. Sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae.
81. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
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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 unit of frequency.
5. A small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick.
6. A suburb of Paris.
7. Music composed for dancing the pavane.
8. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
9. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A vicious angry growl.
12. Clean or orderly.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
21. Fallow deer.
23. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
27. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
29. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
30. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. Type genus of the Anguidae.
33. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
36. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
37. A native or inhabitant of Crete.
38. Wear away.
40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
41. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
44. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
46. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
49. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
50. Having a short growth of beard.
57. Wild ginger.
58. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
60. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
62. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
63. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
65. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
66. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
68. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
69. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
70. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
72. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
73. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
77. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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