1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
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. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
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. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
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.
20. A large fleet.
23. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. (informal) Exceptionally good.
31. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
32. Jutting or overhanging.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
41. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
43. The act of scanning.
46. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. An accidental happening.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.

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. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Pitching dangerously to one side.
19. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. Characteristic of a mob.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
33. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
34. An island of central Hawaii.
35. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. Of southern Europe.
49. 1/10 gram.