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1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
12. A light touch or stroke.
13. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
14. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
17. Before noon.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
20. A unit of pressure.
21. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
25. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
26. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
28. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
30. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
32. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
35. An associate degree in nursing.
40. Used in combination.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. Informal terms for the mouth.
45. A master's degree in business.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
48. A decree that prohibits something.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Wood of a sumac.
2. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
3. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
5. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
10. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
15. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
16. Showing a sense of guilt.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
24. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
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