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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors.
11. (Roman mythology) God of love.
15. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
16. Veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour cream.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. Remote and separate physically or socially.
20. Full of flavor.
21. A very troublesome child.
22. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. Slightly open.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
32. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
35. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Tall hat.
44. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
56. A Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian').
57. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Genus of tropical trees.
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
64. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
67. A blind god.
72. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Type genus of the Apogonidae.
79. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
80. A pass between mountain peaks.
81. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
84. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
85. A great raja.
86. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
2. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
3. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
4. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars.
5. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
6. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
7. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
8. Strike suddenly and with force.
9. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
10. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
11. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
12. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
13. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
14. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
23. An honorary arts degree.
25. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
29. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
31. A narrow gorge with a stream running through it.
33. The middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
41. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
42. God of wealth and love.
43. A language group of the Hokan family.
46. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
50. Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits.
51. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
53. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
60. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
62. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
63. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
65. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
66. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
68. A slender double-reed instrument.
69. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
70. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
71. A deep prolonged loud noise.
73. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
74. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
75. (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.
78. Seed of a pea plant.
82. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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