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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A French abbot.
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. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. Take in solid food.
16. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
31. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
50. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
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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. How long something has existed.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
7. A large fleet.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
10. English essayist (1775-1834).
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A light touch or stroke.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
33. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
36. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Offering fun and gaiety.
42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
48. A rapid bustling commotion.
49. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
50. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
51. A bachelor's degree in religion.
53. Being one more than one.
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