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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees.
12. The site of an archeological exploration.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
20. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
21. A small piece of cloth.
22. Oil palms.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
26. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
29. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits.
36. Having a tone of a reed instrument.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
41. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
42. Fail to do something.
44. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
50. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. A human limb.
56. The sound like water splashing.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
63. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
65. Tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States.
67. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
68. The words of an opera or musical play.
71. A master's degree in business.
72. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
73. Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
75. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. Arranged without spaces between.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
2. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
3. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
4. A cloth having a crisscross design.
5. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
8. An elaborate song for solo voice.
9. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
10. A resident of Utah.
11. Big-eyed scad.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
27. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
31. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
33. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
34. A neutral middle vowel.
35. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
37. A soft silvery metallic element.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. A bottomless gulf or pit.
46. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
47. A race between candidates for elective office.
48. A freshwater pond with fish.
51. A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder.
52. A genus of Psittacidae.
53. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
57. The basic unit of money in Spain.
58. Type genus of the Phocidae.
60. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. A French abbot.
66. Of or relating to near the ear.
69. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
70. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
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