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1. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
5. Type genus of the Elopidae.
10. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
13. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
14. An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints.
15. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
16. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
18. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
20. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
21. A radioactive transuranic element.
22. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
23. An audiotape recording of sound.
24. The residue that remains when something is burned.
26. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
29. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
36. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
37. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
39. Type genus of the Majidae.
41. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
42. Cause to be attached.
45. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. South African term for `boss'.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876).
61. God of the earth.
62. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
65. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
3. A female domestic.
4. A large fleet.
5. Enthusiastic approval.
6. Being one more than fifty.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
9. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
10. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
11. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
12. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
28. Singing jazz.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
32. The sixth month of the civil year.
33. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
38. A genus of Ploceidae.
40. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
41. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
46. One thousand periods per second.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. A notable achievement.
51. A French abbot.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
56. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
57. A Loloish language.
59. Top part of an apron.
63. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
64. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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