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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
23. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
45. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. God of love and erotic desire.
49. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
50. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
51. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
52. The products of human creativity.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Relating to or containing diazonium.
4. The basic unit of money in Albania.
5. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
6. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. The capital of Croatia.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. One thousand periods per second.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A person afflicted with leprosy.
37. A cravat with wide square ends.
39. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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