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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. 10 grams.
12. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
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. An early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. With honey added.
20. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. A synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
31. A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
35. Large mackerel with long pointed snout.
39. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
40. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
43. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
44. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
45. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
49. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
51. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
55. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
56. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
66. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
75. Jordan's port.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A person holding a fief.
79. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
80. The sign language used in the United States.
81. An organized body of related information.
82. (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. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
5. (Greek mythology) God of love.
6. A port and the capital of Guinea.
7. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
8. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
9. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
10. Before noon.
11. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
12. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
13. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A large stringed instrument.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
30. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
32. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
33. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
34. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
36. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
37. 1 species.
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
50. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. A small foothold used in climbing.
54. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
57. An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.
59. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
61. An oil port in southern Iraq.
62. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
64. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
68. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
69. Very dark black.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
74. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
78. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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