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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
8. The cry made by sheep.
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 small cake leavened with yeast.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
15. A human female who does housework.
16. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
34. Tag the base runner to get him out.
36. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
38. Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.
42. An associate degree in applied science.
43. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
49. Full of zest or vigor.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
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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. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. 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.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. By bad luck.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
27. A bachelor's degree in religion.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
31. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. Divulge information or secrets.
40. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
41. The time during which someone's life continues.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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