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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Serving as an essential component.
10. A partially opened flower.
13. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
14. Assign to a lower position.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
17. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
22. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
29. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
37. A tight-fitting headdress.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
41. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
47. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
49. A bachelor's degree in science.
53. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
61. Affect with wonder.
62. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
64. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
65. A state of southwestern India.
66. The superior of a group of nuns.
68. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Smeared thickly.
71. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
5. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
6. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
7. Informal terms for money.
8. A unit of pressure.
9. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
10. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
11. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
12. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
25. English monk and scholar (672-735).
27. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. A yellow quartz.
43. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. One thousand periods per second.
48. English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805).
50. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
56. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
58. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
59. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
60. A city of central China.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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