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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
8. A resource.
11. The basic unit of money in Albania.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Lower in esteem.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
36. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. A decree that prohibits something.
55. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
56. Informal terms for a mother.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
5. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. Type genus of the Amiidae.
9. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
10. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
42. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
46. A light touch or stroke.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. 10 grams.
50. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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