ACROSS
1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Wool of the alpaca.
10. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
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. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Squash bugs.
18. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
19. A master's degree in business.
20. Avatar of Vishnu.
22. 16 ounces.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
27. English essayist (1775-1834).
28. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
31. Make less active or intense.
35. Jordan's port.
37. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
38. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. Genus of North American spring wildflowers.
44. God of wealth and love.
48. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
49. The capital of Western Samoa.
53. A three-tone Chadic language.
55. 1 species.
57. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
60. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
61. (British) Your grandmother.
62. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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DOWN
1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.
7. Lower in esteem.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
9. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
10. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. Characteristic of a baby.
26. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
29. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
30. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
34. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
36. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
40. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
45. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
46. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
47. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
52. Employed in accomplishing something.
54. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. A state in northwestern North America.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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