Crossword Puzzle Number 1563 (Medium Grid)

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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes.
12. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
15. A boy or man.
16. The quality of being alien.
17. A case for containing a set of articles.
18. Black tropical American cuckoo.
19. Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage.
20. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Employed in accomplishing something.
25. Lap at the front of a coat.
26. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
28. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
38. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
42. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
46. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
47. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
49. The content of cognition.
51. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
52. (biology) Belonging to or active during the day.
54. Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer.
56. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
57. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
59. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
65. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
71. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
74. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
78. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
79. Forced or compelled or put in force.
81. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
82. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
83. Having deserted a cause or principle.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
4. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
5. Using the voice.
6. A large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks.
7. A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana.
8. Of or at or relating to an anode.
9. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
10. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
11. Tropical African herbs.
12. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
13. Thrown together in a pile.
14. A particular kind (as to appearance).
21. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
23. Jordan's port.
27. The face or front of a building.
30. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
31. Type genus of the Cottidae.
33. Of or relating to or near the pudendum.
35. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
41. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
44. Costing 10 dollars.
48. Divulge information or secrets.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. Having been read.
55. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
58. Someone who owes money.
63. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
64. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
66. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
67. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
68. Something causes misery or death.
70. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
76. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
77. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
80. Half the width of an em.

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