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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Separate by abscission.
11. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A country on the island of Jamaica.
17. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
21. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
23. 16 ounces.
24. An island in the Persian Gulf.
27. A statement of fundamental facts or principles.
28. A cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy.
32. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
33. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
40. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
42. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
46. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
47. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
48. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
52. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
54. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
57. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
61. Consisting of or made of cedar.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. The craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull.
75. A negative.
76. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
77. Large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long.
78. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
79. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
80. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
81. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Slightly open.
5. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
6. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
7. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
8. Being one more than two.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. Not dense.
12. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
13. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.
14. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
20. A personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others.
22. Ludicrously odd.
25. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. The capital of Eritrea.
30. Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord.
31. A very light brown.
34. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
35. Informal terms for a mother.
36. Someone whose business is advertising.
37. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
38. Causing fear or dread or terror.
39. A genus of Lamnidae.
41. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. The state of owing money.
55. Covered with paving material.
56. A son who has the same first name as his father.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Very dark black.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Type genus of the Nepidae.
65. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
67. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
68. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
69. Characteristic of false pride.
70. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
73. A small amount (especially of a drink).
74. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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