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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
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. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. Take in solid food.
16. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Considerate and solicitous care.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
32. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
38. Jordan's port.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
45. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Your general store of remembered information.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
55. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
56. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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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. How long something has existed.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
7. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
8. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
9. The complete duration of something.
10. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
33. A city in east central Texas.
35. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
46. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
47. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
48. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
49. Not in good physical or mental health.
50. An associate degree in nursing.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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