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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Wool of the alpaca.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. A small lump or protuberance.
20. Avatar of Vishnu.
22. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
24. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. Leather with a napped surface.
27. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
36. (of eggs) No longer edible.
38. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. By bad luck.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
48. The father of your father or mother.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
63. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
66. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. The residue that remains when something is burned.
68. A large fleet.
69. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
2. An informal term for a father.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
7. Wear away.
8. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
9. Lower in esteem.
10. Become gelatinous.
11. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. (British) Your grandmother.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
32. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
33. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
39. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
40. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
49. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
53. A vigorous blow.
56. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
57. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
60. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
61. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
62. Seed of a pea plant.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
65. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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