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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Remove from memory or existence.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
22. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
23. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
25. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
27. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp.
30. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
34. Of or like a cecum.
37. 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).
38. An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker.
39. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
42. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
43. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
47. The lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. Get undressed.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A three-year law degree.
60. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
61. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
62. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
63. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
64. God of the earth.
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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. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
6. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
7. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
8. Unable to move or resist motion.
9. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
10. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
11. Divulge information or secrets.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
18. Place in a grave or tomb.
20. Colloquial British abbreviation.
24. A state in the western United States.
26. Jordan's port.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
31. Cause annoyance in.
32. Colored or impregnated with dye.
33. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
40. A federally chartered savings bank.
41. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
44. Any taillike structure.
45. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
51. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
52. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
57. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
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