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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
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. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
13. Not only so, but.
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.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. An awkward stupid person.
27. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
29. A city in northeastern Ohio.
32. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
33. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
34. Obvious and dull.
38. Before noon.
43. English monk and scholar (672-735).
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
50. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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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. Having much flesh (especially fat).
5. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
6. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
7. Minor or subordinate.
8. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. Jordan's port.
26. The sixth day of the week.
28. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
30. A doctor's degree in optometry.
31. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
35. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. Minor or subordinate.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A sudden short attack.
41. The template for protein synthesis.
42. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. A state of southwestern India.
46. Unknown god.
48. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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