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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
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. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
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. A city in northern India.
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. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
43. Being one more than one.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Being one more than two.
48. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
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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. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
33. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
35. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. A resource.
42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
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