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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Covered with scabs.
10. 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).
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
19. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
20. United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958).
22. Thought to derive from meteorites.
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
27. A fastener for a door or lid.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A sudden short attack.
38. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
41. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
45. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
46. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
47. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
49. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
50. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
51. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
61. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. In or of the month preceding the present one.
64. Lower in esteem.
65. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
66. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
67. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
68. A French abbot.
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1. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
2. Fallow deer.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. A member of the British order of honor.
8. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
9. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
10. European shad.
11. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
12. Having bones especially many or prominent bones.
17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
21. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
23. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
25. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Being one more than two.
37. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
43. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
44. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
48. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
52. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
53. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
55. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
56. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A decree that prohibits something.
62. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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