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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
9. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
13. Your general store of remembered information.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
18. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
19. A resource.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.
23. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
29. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
30. A small island.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
39. Keep company with.
43. A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago.
44. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
45. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
46. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
47. A primeval personification of air and breath.
50. The basic unit of money in Peru.
51. Of or relating to or located at the base.
52. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
54. A natural protective covering of the body.
55. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
56. A native American tent.
58. The cry made by sheep.
60. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
61. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
62. The expensive white fur of the ermine.
64. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
67. A state in midwestern United States.
69. Any fungus of the genus Discina.
71. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
72. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
75. Having the surface damaged or disfigured.
78. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
82. A flexible container with a single opening.
83. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch.
86. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
88. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
92. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
93. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
95. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
97. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
98. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
99. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
101. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
102. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
103. Channel into a new direction.
104. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
105. Lacking self-confidence.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
5. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
6. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
7. A category in some early taxonomies.
8. A town in north central Oklahoma.
9. Used of the language of the deaf.
10. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
11. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
12. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
13. A Loloish language.
14. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
22. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
24. Greek poet who is said to have originated Greek tragedy (sixth century BC).
26. Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. A person who lacks good judgment.
33. Requiring two hands or designed for two people.
34. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Of or relating to apnea.
38. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
40. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
41. Either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from Rhodopsin by the action of light.
42. Island in West Indies.
48. Mated sexually.
49. (of experimental animals) Raised under sterile conditions.
53. A soft silvery metallic element.
57. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
63. Half the width of an em.
65. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
66. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
68. Of the nature of fact.
69. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
70. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. The act of escaping physically.
74. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
77. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
79. An oil port in southern Iraq.
80. The capital of Morocco.
81. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
84. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
85. Being three more than fifty.
87. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
89. A bachelor's degree in library science.
90. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
91. An organization of military land forces.
94. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
96. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
100. A state in New England.
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