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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
16. (Irish) The sea personified.
17. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
18. One of the common people.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. Goddess of fate.
21. Porridge made of rolled oats.
23. A native of ancient Troy.
25. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
27. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
28. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
29. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. God of fire.
38. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
41. Soft blue-gray mineral.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Spread or daub over.
49. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
51. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
54. A light touch or stroke.
56. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
57. A situation in which no progress can be made.
60. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
61. Highly offensive.
62. A hotel for motorists.
63. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
64. Resembling the new moon in shape.
68. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
69. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
72. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
74. Before noon.
75. A city and port in northern Jutland.
79. Singing jazz.
83. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
86. Made of or resembling lace.
87. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
88. A gray mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel.
90. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
93. A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
94. Seed of a pea plant.
95. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
96. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
97. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
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1. A soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light.
2. Deciduous shrub of North America.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. Of or relating to bionics.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. Affecting things past.
7. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
8. Raised above ground level.
9. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. A large number or amount.
14. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
15. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
22. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
24. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
26. A French abbot.
32. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
35. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
36. (zoology) Having a tail or taillike appendage.
39. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
40. European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century.
42. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
43. A region in central Italy.
44. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation.
46. A tub in which clothes or linens can be washed.
48. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
50. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
52. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area.
53. A small island.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
58. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
59. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
65. A secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail.
66. (Scandinavian folklore) A supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains v 1.
67. Having an elongated seating area.
68. A large number or amount.
70. A motley assortment of things.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. State in northeastern India.
77. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
78. In a gay manner.
80. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
82. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
84. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
85. Cut down with an ax.
89. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
91. The eleventh month of the civil year.
92. Being one more than one.
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