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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
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. A quantity of no importance.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. By bad luck.
23. Water frozen in the solid state.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
31. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
36. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
40. The residue that remains when something is burned.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. God of death.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A light touch or stroke.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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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. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A motley assortment of things.
6. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
21. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
25. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
28. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
49. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. Before noon.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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