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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Brain corals.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
17. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. National capital of Kiribati.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
25. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. Herb native to southern Europe.
34. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
38. A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water.
41. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
42. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
43. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
44. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
45. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
54. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
57. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
58. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
61. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
63. A cooperative unit.
64. Someone who wastes time.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
71. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
73. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
75. Very dark black.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
80. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
81. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
82. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
5. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
6. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
7. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
8. Not of long duration.
9. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
10. A state in New England.
11. A port city in southwestern Iran.
12. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Witnessed at first hand.
21. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
31. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
32. Thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum.
33. Again but in a new or different way.
35. A Greek island west of Greece.
36. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
37. The capital of Eritrea.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
49. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
51. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
53. The cry made by sheep.
55. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. A large fleet.
59. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
60. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
62. Wood of a pecan tree.
65. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
69. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
72. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
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