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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Small usually single-celled reproductive body produced especially by certain bacteria and algae and fungi and nonflowering plants.
9. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. Of or relating to a hair.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. Jordan's port.
18. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
19. A short synopsis.
22. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
23. Fallow deer.
25. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
28. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
32. Of or relating to or involving an area.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
37. The capital of Nationalist China.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. Squash bugs.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. An awkward stupid person.
57. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
62. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
65. Having only superficial plausibility.
66. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
67. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
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1. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
5. A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
10. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
20. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. Before noon.
26. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. An island of central Hawaii.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. American Revolutionary patriot.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
50. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
54. Dearly loved.
55. In bed.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
62. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
63. The fifth day of the week.
64. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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