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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. A French abbot.
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. How long something has existed.
13. A sudden short attack.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. 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.
16. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
20. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
24. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
37. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
38. Divulge information or secrets.
41. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
45. Any plant of the genus Erica.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
47. A rapid bustling commotion.
51. Being one more than six.
52. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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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. 10 grams.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
7. A large fleet.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
29. Step on it.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
35. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
39. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
40. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. Set down according to a plan.
46. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
47. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
48. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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