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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
9. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Jordan's port.
15. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
16. A bottomless gulf or pit.
18. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. Flat tableland with steep edges.
20. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
22. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
27. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
30. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The sign language used in the United States.
37. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
41. Administer an oil or ointment to.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. 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.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
52. Very dark black.
56. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
58. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
59. The month following February and preceding April.
60. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
63. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
64. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
65. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
66. The sister of your father or mother.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
4. Follower of Rastafarianism.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Imprudently incurring risk.
12. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
17. A native-born Israeli.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
28. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
29. A French abbot.
31. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
32. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
33. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
46. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
49. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
54. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
55. Immediately following in time or order.
57. A light touch or stroke.
61. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
62. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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