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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
9. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Put to use.
15. (Roman mythology) God of love.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
18. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
23. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
35. A genus of Platalea.
37. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
41. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
44. A person who lacks good judgment.
47. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
51. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Jordan's port.
58. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
59. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
62. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
64. (botany) Especially of plant parts.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Tastelessly showy.
2. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
3. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
4. The foot of a human being.
5. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
8. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
9. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
10. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
11. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. By bad luck.
28. An awkward stupid person.
29. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
39. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Cast again, in a different role.
45. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
46. Enthusiastic approval.
48. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
49. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
50. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
53. On or toward the lee.
54. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
57. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
61. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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