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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
10. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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. Existing or belonging to a time before a war.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A negative.
22. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Squash bugs.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
43. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
44. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
45. A doctor's degree in optometry.
47. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. Little known Kamarupan languages.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
62. A state in midwestern United States.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
65. Type genus of the Vespidae.
68. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
69. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
70. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
71. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
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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 widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
5. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. Distant in either space or time.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
11. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
12. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
18. Bristling with perplexities.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. The cry made by sheep.
25. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. An instinctive motive.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
32. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
33. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
36. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Jordan's port.
41. A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words.
42. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
46. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
50. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
51. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. Located at or near the back of an animal.
54. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
57. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
58. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
59. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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