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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. A slender double-reed instrument.
8. Inquire about.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
28. The capital of Croatia.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
32. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
41. (informal) Roused to anger.
42. Avatar of Vishnu.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Very dark black.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
50. God of fire.
51. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
7. The fatty flesh of eel.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
19. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
21. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
34. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. 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.
38. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. The second day of the week.
44. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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