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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. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
20. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
22. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
24. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
27. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
35. Largest known toad species.
36. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
38. The mother of your father or mother.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. The act of using.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. The seventh month of the civil year.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
62. The cry made by sheep.
63. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
66. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. A young woman making her debut into society.
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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. The act of scanning.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Tall tender clumping bamboos.
8. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
9. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
11. Relating to the Urdu language.
12. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
17. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
21. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
23. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
28. A city in northern India.
29. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
32. A genus of Strigidae.
33. Flat tableland with steep edges.
34. Chief port of Yemen.
37. A sudden short attack.
39. Made of fir or pine.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. An enclosed space.
46. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
47. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
55. In bed.
56. Denuded of leaves.
57. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
60. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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