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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
9. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
16. (Irish) The sea personified.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. An affirmative.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
23. One of two official languages of Norway.
25. Divulge information or secrets.
27. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
28. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
29. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
30. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
32. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
34. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
36. A state in northwestern North America.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
41. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
44. Weapons using atomic energy.
47. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
49. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
50. A Loloish language.
51. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
53. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
54. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
55. Be teeming, be abuzz.
56. Common black European thrush.
58. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
60. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
61. Used of a single unit or thing.
63. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
65. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
67. An East Indian sailor.
69. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
70. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
72. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
75. A shot or scene that is photographed again v 1.
77. Before noon.
78. 16 ounces.
80. One thousandth of a second.
81. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
83. Characteristic of a mob.
85. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
86. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
91. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
94. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
96. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
99. An informal term for a father.
100. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
101. One who works hard at boring tasks.
103. Advanced in years.
104. A branch of the Tai languages.
106. The last (12th) month of the year.
107. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
108. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
109. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Made of fir or pine.
3. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
4. Informal terms for a mother.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
6. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
7. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
8. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
9. A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
14. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
15. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
22. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
24. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
26. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
33. Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron.
35. A person forced to flee from home or country.
37. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
39. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
40. Covered with paving material.
42. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer).
43. Bound by contract.
45. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
46. Feel admiration for.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. German hero.
57. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
59. God of wisdom or prophesy.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
66. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
73. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
74. To fix or set securely or deeply.
76. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
77. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
79. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
82. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
84. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
87. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
89. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
90. A coffin along with its stand.
92. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
93. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
95. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
97. An associate degree in applied science.
98. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
102. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
105. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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