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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
15. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
28. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. An awkward stupid person.
48. A master's degree in business.
49. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A doctor's degree in education.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
5. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. A quantity of no importance.
8. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
9. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
20. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
22. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
23. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. 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.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
44. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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