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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded).
10. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn.
18. A container.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
25. Of or containing iridium.
27. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. Deciduous shrub of North America.
48. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
51. Range of what one can know or understand.
54. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
58. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
61. In bed.
62. Pale gray.
63. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
64. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
65. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
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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. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. An Asian river.
7. British composer (1857-1934).
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. (informal) Roused to anger.
10. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
11. The capital of Western Samoa.
12. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
20. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
22. Being one more than fifty.
24. A master's degree in fine arts.
26. Having relatively few calories.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
32. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. English monk and scholar (672-735).
35. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
36. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
44. A man of English descent.
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
47. Jordan's port.
48. A state in midwestern United States.
49. Armor plate that protects the chest.
50. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
52. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
53. A quantity of no importance.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
56. The airforce of Great Britain.
57. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
59. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
60. That is to say.
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