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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
11. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
15. With no effort to conceal.
16. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
43. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
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1. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
7. A resource.
8. The content of cognition.
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
10. By bad luck.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
25. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
27. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A Russian river.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
45. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
46. Towards the side away from the wind.
47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
48. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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