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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
15. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
16. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
17. Not divisible by two.
18. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
20. A source of danger.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. (of characters in literature or drama) Evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings.
28. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. A person who eats human flesh.
32. The cry made by sheep.
35. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
38. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
40. Turn sharply.
41. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. Domestic swine.
46. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. A sharply directional antenna.
53. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
54. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
56. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
59. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
63. Not functioning properly.
65. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
72. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
74. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
75. Being one more than two.
76. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
78. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
79. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
80. A person with the same name as another.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A treeless grassy plain.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
7. Communicated in the form of words.
8. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
9. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
10. A kind of person.
11. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
12. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
19. A brief swim in water.
21. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. Enough to meet a purpose.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
33. Of or relating to or involving an area.
34. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
39. God of love and erotic desire.
42. Type genus of the Majidae.
45. A climber of vertical rock faces.
47. A complex of concurrent things.
50. Squash bugs.
52. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
55. 1/10 gram.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
58. A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific.
60. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
61. Mated sexually.
62. Excessively fat.
64. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
67. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
68. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Towards the side away from the wind.
77. Before noon.
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