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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A person you know well and regard with affection and trust.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Jordan's port.
18. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
19. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
21. Praise, glorify, or honor.
23. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
27. Lower in esteem.
29. A festival featuring African-American culture.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
41. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
42. The act of scanning.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990).
49. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
51. A French abbot.
53. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. The longest division of geological time.
59. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
63. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
65. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
70. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
72. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
73. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
74. An indication of approved or superior status.
75. A rapid bustling commotion.
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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. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
6. The basic unit of money in Iran.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
9. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
11. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
12. Censure severely or angrily.
20. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
22. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
25. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).
31. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
47. A Russian river.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
50. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
52. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
55. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
56. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. A light informal meal.
60. God of love and erotic desire.
61. A sudden short attack.
62. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
64. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
66. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
67. An audiotape recording of sound.
71. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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