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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Little known Kamarupan languages.
8. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
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. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. A French abbot.
16. God of the earth.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
30. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
35. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
44. Jordan's port.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
52. A light touch or stroke.
53. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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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. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
6. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
7. The seed of the cereal grass.
8. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
9. In bed.
10. Any loose flowing garment.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
21. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A doctor's degree in optometry.
26. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. An inhabitant of Lappland.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. The cry made by sheep.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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