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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A drama set to music.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
16. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
17. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
18. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
19. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
20. A quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
22. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
24. Take in solid food.
25. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
26. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
28. A telegram sent abroad.
30. An enclosed space.
32. A British doctorate.
34. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
43. The highest level or degree attainable.
46. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Someone who rows a boat.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
55. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
56. Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters.
59. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
62. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
63. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
64. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
65. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
66. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
69. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
71. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
74. A quantity of no importance.
77. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
79. That is to say.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
89. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
90. Come to pass.
91. The sign language used in the United States.
92. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
94. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
96. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
97. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
98. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
99. Set down according to a plan.
100. (informal) Roused to anger.
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1. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
2. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
3. In bed.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
5. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
6. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
7. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
8. On, to, or at the top.
9. Chief port of Yemen.
10. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
11. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
12. The limits within which something can be effective.
13. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
14. Using speech rather than writing.
15. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
21. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
23. An informal term for a father.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A resource.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Having prongs or tines.
35. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
36. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
37. A beautiful and graceful girl.
38. Annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia.
40. A man who has never been married.
41. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
44. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
45. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
50. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
51. A royal treasury.
52. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
54. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
57. Any plant of the genus Inula.
58. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
60. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
67. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
68. Transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data.
70. Water frozen in the solid state.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
75. Lower in esteem.
76. Little known Kamarupan languages.
78. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
80. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
82. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
83. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
84. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
85. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
86. The capital and largest city of Fiji (on Viti Levu island).
87. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
93. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
95. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
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