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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Before anything else.
11. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
15. The basic unit of money in Romania.
16. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition.
17. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
18. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
19. Pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum.
21. A hand tool for lifting loose material.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,546 feet high).
25. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
26. Type genus of the Apidae.
28. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
30. A person who lacks good judgment.
32. Enlarged prostate.
36. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
40. A print obtained from a line drawing.
42. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. The middle of the gestation period.
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
47. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
51. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
52. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
59. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
61. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
63. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
71. The money risked on a gamble.
72. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
75. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
76. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
77. God of love and erotic desire.
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1. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
2. A city in north-central India.
3. An expressway in a German-speaking country.
4. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
5. Any plant of the genus Inula.
6. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
7. Unique or specific to a person or thing or category.
8. Herbs of temperate regions.
9. A toilet in England.
10. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
11. The father of your father or mother.
12. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
13. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
14. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
20. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
22. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
27. A genus of Bothidae.
31. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
33. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
34. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
35. Founder of Buddhism.
37. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
38. Complacently or inanely foolish.
39. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
41. Tropical African herbs.
45. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
48. Affected manners intended to impress others.
53. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
54. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
55. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
56. The event of dying or departure from life.
57. Any taillike structure.
60. In bed.
62. Baby bed with high sides.
64. Informal terms for a mother.
65. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
66. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
68. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
69. The fatty flesh of eel.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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