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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
7. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
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. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A Loloish language.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. Established irrevocably.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
44. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
48. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
51. Negation of a word or group of words.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. One who works hard at boring tasks.
54. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
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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. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
5. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An Asian river between China and Russia.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
39. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. Having the slant of a bevel.
42. Little known Kamarupan languages.
43. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
45. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
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