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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Botfly larva.
7. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. A large fleet.
24. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
28. A boy or man.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A small piece of cloth.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. A state in the eastern United States.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Seed of a pea plant.
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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 cry made by sheep.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
7. A long-playing phonograph record.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. Fallow deer.
25. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Of a leaf shape.
33. Greek mythology.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
41. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
42. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
43. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
44. An accidental happening.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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