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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
8. Inquire about.
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. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
29. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
38. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. Selling or related to selling direct to the consumer.
43. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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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 doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. A young woman making her debut into society.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. The bill in a restaurant.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. In bed.
36. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
37. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
45. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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