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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
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 local computer network for communication between computers.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
35. Jordan's port.
38. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
40. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
41. The basic unit of money in Albania.
45. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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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. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
6. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
7. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
16. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
23. Offering fun and gaiety.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
31. 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.
33. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
34. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
39. God of death.
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
45. Before noon.
47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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