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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
8. An enclosed space.
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. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
16. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
46. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
47. A light touch or stroke.
48. South African term for `boss'.
49. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
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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. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
40. A city of central China.
41. Flat tableland with steep edges.
43. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
44. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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