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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
12. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
15. A boy or man.
16. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
17. An informal debt instrument.
18. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them.
22. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
23. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
25. An island in the south Pacific.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
35. Building material used as siding or roofing.
38. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
41. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
42. In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
45. The content of cognition.
47. A cry of sorrow and grief.
50. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
52. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
54. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
55. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
58. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
61. An ancient city in northeastern Spain.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. The state of being inactive.
72. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
73. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
74. Having no weak points.
75. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
77. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
2. Fallow deer.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
11. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
12. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
13. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
14. A branch of the Tai languages.
19. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
21. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
24. Made to fall (as by striking or cutting or shooting or by illness or exhaustion).
27. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
29. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
30. (prefix) Outside or outer.
31. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
33. Turn pale, as if in fear.
34. Decisively defeated in combat.
36. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. English essayist (1775-1834).
44. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
46. Type genus of Cladoniaceae.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
51. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
53. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
56. Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy (1756-1791).
57. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
62. In bed.
63. A sudden short attack.
64. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
65. Largest known toad species.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
71. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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