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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
10. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
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 port city in southwestern Iran.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Abounding in or covered with flowers.
18. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Affect with wonder.
28. Stay clear from.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
36. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
40. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters after injection of a radiopaque dye.
43. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
44. Step on it.
45. A shoe covering the ankle.
48. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
50. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
54. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
58. Jordan's port.
59. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
60. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
63. Extremely pleasing.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
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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 compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
5. A bachelor's degree in library science.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. A rapid bustling commotion.
8. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
9. One or some or every or all without specification.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. A city in northern India.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
22. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. A student in medical school.
27. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
29. Being one more than seven.
30. Belonging to some prior time.
33. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
34. A very light brown.
35. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Painted beauty and red admiral.
42. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
46. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
47. A telegram sent abroad.
49. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
51. A Loloish language.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
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