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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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. The cry made by sheep.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. A light touch or stroke.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
29. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
33. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
50. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
52. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
55. The cry made by sheep.
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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. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. God of wealth and love.
27. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. In bed.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Derive or receive pleasure from.
46. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. Water frozen in the solid state.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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