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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
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. Extremely pleasing.
13. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
28. The capital of Croatia.
30. An informal term for a father.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
36. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Set down according to a plan.
47. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
48. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
49. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
50. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. The cry made by sheep.
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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. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
10. By bad luck.
18. A bottle with a stopper.
20. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. On or toward the lee.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
45. A young woman making her debut into society.
46. A person's brother or sister.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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