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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration.
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. A farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
17. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
18. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
19. Showing signs of wear and tear.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
22. A republic in southwestern Asia.
26. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
28. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
34. Toward the mouth or oral region.
35. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
37. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
39. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
40. Rounded like an egg.
42. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.
43. A local computer network for communication between computers.
46. A town in north central Oklahoma.
47. Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
55. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
57. The capital of Turkey.
60. God of wealth and love.
61. The positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
69. Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
75. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
77. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
78. With anger.
79. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. God of fire.
4. A city of southeastern Mexico.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
7. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
8. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
9. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
10. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
11. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
12. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. A three-tone Chadic language.
23. Informal terms for a mother.
24. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
25. The probability of a specified outcome.
27. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
29. Of or relating to or involving an area.
30. Wife of Balder.
31. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
32. Used especially in treating bruises.
33. Necessary for relief or supply.
36. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
38. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
41. Before noon.
44. A personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. Any of various small biting flies.
49. A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. A Russian river.
56. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
58. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
59. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
62. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
63. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
65. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
70. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. Bright and pleasant.
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